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...European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented the Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin joined in Philadelphia and later guided Voltaire through the order's mysteries. Colonial lodges, says Masonic historian William Moore, offered "a civil space in which...
...back in 1952, three years after he had arrived as a national spiritual leader at the age of 30, he was so exhausted that he wasn't sure he could continue much longer. "I've always thought my life would be a short one," he told a group of churchmen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "I don't think my ministry will be long. I think God allowed me to come for a moment and it will be over soon...
...ever been (see Madonna, or Gore Vidal's elaborately blasphemous novel called LIVE from Golgotha). At the same time, both religious observance and the press of religious issues (questions of uncertainty, faith, anguish) are rising. Church leaders repeatedly condemn violence done in the name of religious tribalism -- as Orthodox churchmen speak against "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and as some Muslim leaders criticize the bombing of the World Trade Center. But the zealots press on, shattering the silence, blasting the foundations...
...most dramatic church reforms have occurred in Lithuania. The Kremlin has permitted a nearly complete hierarchy, even though the Vatican refuses to recognize the U.S.S.R.'s 1940 annexation of Lithuania. In 1988 the regime restored the two top churchmen, who between them spent 53 years in internal exile. In March the Pope named three new bishops (the first since World War II) and two apostolic administrators, so that five of the six dioceses have resident leaders...
...justifiably forgotten literary figure into a scandalous best seller. "One accomplishes nothing so stylishly as the thing in which one has no belief," thinks Julian. "Gigolos probably make better lovers than those weak with desire; the best politicians are those who are most like actors; the most influential churchmen are those who seem furthest from the ideals of the Gospel...