Word: virginal
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...most sensitive passages in any Bible translation are those that deal with doctrine. The N.A.B. retains "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, considered a prediction of the Virgin Birth, rather than the "young woman" favored by recent Protestant versions. Several footnotes are used to explain verses apparently contradicting the Catholic dogma that Mary and Joseph never had sexual relations even after Jesus was born. One of these states that the New Testament word for the "brothers" of Jesus could mean either blood brothers or merely relatives, but the N.A.B. sides with the latter. In Acts 17:26, the N.A.B. follows other...
Within the screen, one viewer sees a configuration of the Virgin Mary, another a storm at sea, a third the blossoming of an exotic tropical plant. But the Kalliroscope is more than a Rorschach in flux. It is also a work of art, a study in hydrodynamics, a patented invention, a decoration, a toy-and with sales already exceeding 15,000-one of this year's most successful novelty items...
...reminiscent of Viridinana: a beautiful young girl dressed in black enters the home of her guardian (Fernando Rey, who also played the uncle in Viridiana ); she becomes his mistress, then his wife; she destroys him. Loss of innocence is a favorite Bunuel theme, and Deneuve's progression from blond virgin to black widow is a passionate, nearly religious journey. What most marks the film is the blend of heresy and humanism for which Bunuel is distinguished...
...according to legend, the house of the Virgin Mary landed in what is now the Italian town of Loreto after a miraculous flight from Nazareth. That association with air travel has been enough to make the town of 9,500 a profitable center of jet-age piety. Last week at least 50,000 pilgrims crammed in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a papal proclamation designating the Madonna of Loreto as protector of aviators; they overflowed the 20 hotels and dozen boarding houses that have gone up in Loreto in recent years. Prosperity from tourism has helped Loreto entrepreneurs...
...leaders of the Church Outside Russia accordingly do not recognize the actions of other Russian Orthodox groups. Thus on the same weekend as the Kodiak ceremonies. New York's Metropolitan Philaret led a glittering procession down Geary Boulevard in San Francisco to the minareted Cathedral of the Holy Virgin, there to confirm with another solemn liturgy that Herman is really a saint...