Word: vaticans
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...sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love--none of that is covered in Sister...
Harvard remains little more than a massive institution in locals' eyes--"The Vatican of Cambridge," Highsmith calls it--a looming presence but one with little relevance to their lives...
...sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love - none of that is covered in "Sister...
...might have been Pope John Paul II, whose calls for fair treatment of developing nations can be heard around the world. It might have also been Bono, lead singer of U2, whose visit to the Vatican initiated probably the first joint statement by a Catholic pope and an Irish pop star. It could have also been Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade and Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, who is one of the most outspoken representatives of the economics profession and an avid supporter of the global debt relief program...
...John Cardinal O'Connor of New York appointed four archdiocesan exorcists. In an average year, they investigate some 350 cases and perform 10 to 15 exorcisms. Last year Chicago's Francis Cardinal George appointed the first official exorcist in his diocese's 160-year history. Several months earlier, the Vatican had revised the Rite of Exorcism. It eliminated physical descriptions of Satan and such honorifics as the "Father of Lies," but it also vigorously affirmed the church's power to banish him using God's name, holy water, the sign of the cross and readings from Scripture. An exorcists' convention...