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...invitation and a challenge. Hip-hop dance battles?much like the M.C. face-offs in the film 8 Mile?are becoming mainstream. The dance-battle scene has inspired a TV show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic, b-boy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer and ringleader of New York City's Rock Steady Crew...
...film is one-dimensional. It doesn't tell us why he was tortured ... I was happy when it was over." VATICAN-BASED CARDINAL, in an interview with Time, after seeing Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ...
...Recent polls show that 60 percent believe biblical accounts as historical facts. More Americans believe the Virgin Birth occurred than that evolution is scientifically valid. The Pope is reported to have said about The Passion that “it is as it was,” despite previous Vatican criticism of literalists who read the Bible as history. Here is what the Pontifical Biblical Commission wrote to Pope John Paul II in 1993: “Fundamentalism also places undue stress upon the inerrancy of certain details in the biblical texts, especially in what concerns historical events or supposedly...
...CARDINAL KONIG, 98, progressive-minded prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; in Vienna. A savvy diplomat fluent in seven languages, K?nig was twice considered a candidate for the papacy. During the 1960s he was at the center of a movement to liberalize church policy, helping to organize the Second Vatican Council, which expanded the influence of the laity and famously absolved the Jews of responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Even after the church turned conservative again, K?nig continued to reach out, becoming the Vatican's point man for Eastern Europe and non-Catholics. "I wanted a dialogue with...
...days before her appointment, the Vatican appointed two female theologians as Vatican consultants for the first time...