Word: catechismal
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Book burning by censors of the Roman Catholic Church sputtered out long ago. The Index of Prohibited Books, and other means of limiting what the faithful were permitted to read, faded away during and after the Second Vatican Council. Now, however, there are small signs that the pendulum is swinging...
The Paulist Press is also responsible for issuing Christ Among Us, a catechism by Anthony Wilhelm, a former priest. Since it was first printed in 1967, more than 1.6 million copies have been sold-166,000 of them last year-and for many of the nation's 52 million...
Shadowing and shading everything is John Lennon, who took the longest and most harrowing voyage of all the Beatles. He had finally reached a kind of peace and understanding after some sexual profligacy and a bit of doubt (he had, this book claims, a dalliance with Epstein). He had also...
The four young playwright's- Davis is 30, Durang 32, Pielmeier 33 and Kurtti 26- form no cohesive group, no lapsed-Catholic Mafia. They have responded to their shared history in tones ranging from reverence to rage, and no divine law ordains that they must continue to wrestle with...
"With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt," says Leviticus 2:13. Because of its use as a preservative, salt became a token of permanence to the Jews of the Old Testament. Its use in Hebrew sacrifices as a meat purifier came to signify the eternal covenant between God and...