Word: catechisme
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Hellman did have one thing right: Mahoney is Irish and proud of it. In 1991 she spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for...
As a lad in Texas in the 1950s, Terrence McNally learned his catechism. But he may never have heard a commandment expressed more fervently than the prayer he has written in his new play, A Perfect Ganesh:
They'd take up a whole pew, the Weaver girls. "Everybody called us that," says Nan. Five born in seven years. Joanne was Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue...
Our hero is no less shocked and outraged by this catechism of concupiscence than a middle-class Manhattan playgoer might be. But because the plague years have forced Jeffrey to retreat from sex, or even from expressions of love, he is desperate for wisdom from any source. And -- surprise! -- Father...
Much of the catechism, of course, merely reasserts traditional stands, including the church's hotly contested opposition to women priests, birth control, divorce, mercy killing and abortion. The catechism may not be especially innovative but, asserts Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger of Paris, it "will appear, with time, to be one...