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...science. But what if the purpose of desecrating the dead is to learn how to make a better Volkswagen? Germany's largest automobile club, ADAC, denounced the experiments with children's bodies as ethically unacceptable. Even more vehement was the Roman Catholic Church: "A repugnance to the conscience," seethed Vatican theologian Gino Concetti, who expressed "uncontrollable indignation" over tests for which there was "no moral justification...
...parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano postmodernist doing lurid Madonnas...
...Cardinal wields immense clout in the hierarchy -- beginning at the top. The Pope and Ratzinger are, says one mid-ranking Vatican official, "two pieces of a puzzle. Without one, the other is not complete." Others point out an obvious primacy. Asked whether the Cardinal in practice was the undisputed No. 2 under the Pontiff, one insider in the Holy See responds, "Intellectually and theologically...
...adding both context and detail to that story let me admit that I am a friend of the museum: I have chaired committees for two of the museum's most splendid exhibitions ("Judaica from the Vatican Library" and "The Silver Calf from Ashkelon") and was a member of the committee for a third ("The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations"). I acquired for the museum the photographs by the rediscovered 19th century photographer M.J. Diness now on exhibit until December 18. My bias for these undertakings notwithstanding, the facts are the facts...
...desire to mass-produce babies; they were simply extending their research in the field of in-vitro fertilization, using every means at their disposal to help couples who are unable to have children. Yet they found themselves condemned on all sides. Japanese doctors called their experiment "unthinkable," and the Vatican accused them of opening the door to "a tunnel of madness...