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...further problem with the Church’s reaction to the abuse scandal relates not to the Pope’s communication, but to the protests of Catholics around the world. A controversial letter recently published in USA Today, for example, likens the Pope to a “martyr” who, “like Jesus, is completely innocent and is doing everything in his power to weed out those priests guilty of sexual abuse.” These and similar claims, which portray the Pope as a martyr for bringing the sexual abuse claims to light...
...long time. As someone who studies the Greeks, I’ve been writing about ancient Greek homosexuality for a long time. I’ve also been an actress and I’ve seen people who were able to be respected and accepted in the theater world who were not able to be accepted in the larger world, and that moved...
...Cross-training, if you will. My trainers recommended I do this to be grilled to perfection for the marathon.” When asked about the victor of an earlier tussle with a banana-clad opponent, Novey replied, “Everyone’s a winner on World Pillow Fight Day.” Now that’s some sweet pillow talk...
...world's most renowned judges has just landed on the other side of the bench. Spanish National Court magistrate Baltasar Garzón, best known for ordering former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's arrest and extradition for crimes against humanity, was indicted Wednesday by his own country's Supreme Court. Charged with knowingly overreaching his jurisdiction when he opened an investigation into another dictator's crimes - in this case, Spain's Francisco Franco - Garzón has been suspended from his job while he awaits the start of his criminal trial...
...answer to that question may have less to do with the divisiveness surrounding the memories of the Franco regime than with Garzón himself. The man the media routinely calls "superjudge" is perhaps the world's leading practitioner of universal jurisdiction, a legal principle that holds that in crimes of exceptional gravity, the right to render judgment is not limited to the country where the crime was committed. Garzón is seen as a crusading hero by many leftists for using the principle to order the arrest of Pinochet in London in 1998 (the U.K. later refused...