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...church, some of whom felt the church was going too far in its apology and others who believe it hadn't gone far enough," says Van Biema. The central point of contention is whether responsibility for sins rests with the church itself, or simply with its errant children. "Although this pope has gone a lot further than any in history toward acknowledging corporate responsibility on the part of the church, he's pushing against significant opposition, and the outcome will still be regarded as insufficient in some quarters...
...Vatican's 1997 document "We Remember," concerning the church's role during the Holocaust, was widely criticized by Jewish organizations for failing to go far enough in confronting the church's failures both during the Holocaust itself and in creating the cultural climate in Europe in which it occurred. Although the current document goes a little further than "We Remember," that's unlikely to be enough to satisfy Jewish critics...
...Although the treatment of the Holocaust in "Memory and Reconciliation" is sure to attract the most attention, there is plenty more for observers to ponder. It questions some of the more important episodes of church history in the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades, in which military campaigns ordered by the Vatican resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslims, Jews and Orthodox Christians, and the Inquisition, in which the Vatican authorized torture as a means of extracting confessions from "heretics." The document challenges many of the practices of the church in the New World, by criticizing forced...
According to Wilson L. Hunt Jr. '65, assistant director of the Office of Career Services, although around 100 technology firms recruit on campus, there are only about 60 to 90 students available each year...
...created palpable sexual tension among audience members, released only somewhat by laughter at strategic intervals. The mood changed considerably when another reader from M.I.T. softly read a "work in progress" poem about a stern father who kills himself, teaching his obedient daughter to "fight back when somebody hits you." Although she read with less force and theatricality than some of the other poets, this eerily autobiographical poem stood on its own. Her small voice and the small room enhanced the intimacy of the poem, drawing in the audience...