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...Lucy was told she could not attend her sister's wedding because the ceremony would not be Catholic. "My sister didn't talk to me for two years," Lucy says. It took five more years, however, before she decided to leave Opus Dei last April. (The group's U.S. vicar has said such dissatisfaction and complaints, while unfortunate, are unavoidable in large organizations. "You can't keep [directors] from making mistakes...
...current issue of Harper's magazine puts it, "to a great extent ... an authoritarian and semi-clandestine enterprise that manages to infiltrate its indoctrinated technocrats, politicos and administrators into the highest levels of the state." On the other is the portrait painted by Opus' U.S. vicar Thomas Bohlin, who sat for several hours with TIME at his group's Manhattan headquarters. Opus, he explained, is just a teaching entity, a kind of advanced school for Catholic spiritual formation with minimal global coordination or input as to how members and sympathizers apply what they learn. "You know Dale Carnegie courses...
...Khalilzad must insist that al-Hakim use his influence on behalf of the interests of all the Iraqi people, the region and the world. Alex Ohan Toronto Forgiveness Forestalled Simon Robinson's essay "Is forgiveness always divine?" [March 20] discussed the decision of the Rev. Julie Nicholson, an Anglican vicar who lost her daughter in a London suicide bombing, to resign her position as a parish priest because she is unable to forgive the suicide bomber. She is only one of millions who cannot forgive. I am one of them. As a survivor of the Holocaust, I witnessed things that...
...didn't feel sympathy for the Rev. Julie Nicholson when she announced her resignation as parish priest of St. Aidan with St. George in Bristol, England, last week? The Anglican vicar lost her 24-year-old daughter Jenny in last July's London terrorist bombings. In a breathtakingly candid interview with the bbc, Nicholson said she was stepping down because she could not forgive the suicide bomber. "I rage that a human being could choose to take another human's life. I rage that someone should do this in the name of a god," she said. But mixed in with...
...drop out of the rat race in favor of more spiritual pursuits. Still, Christie's decision to join the Church of England put him decidedly outside the mainstream. The Church's membership has dwindled dramatically over the past few decades, and Christie says he realizes that the days when vicars were automatically viewed as respected community figures are long gone. "Being a clergyman doesn't have much moral authority these days," he says. And as a vicar, he says he sometimes struggles to balance demands for what people ask him to do with what he feels is right...