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From the riddle of the Annunciation to the bloody sacrifice on Good Friday, the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church reverberate with two riveting forms of drama: the mystery play and the horror show. The complementary doctrines of faith and expiation set the tone for an ageold debate. To the...
It is the considerable strength and the ultimate limitation of Agnes of God that it gives nearly equal time to each point of view. The believer is Mother Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), head of a convent of cloistered nuns, whose young charge Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) has been accused of...
Armero had become a ghostly wasteland of gray mud pockmarked with the jutting remains of houses, automobiles, trees and sometimes dead bodies. The government planned to have the Roman Catholic Church declare the area a "holy ground," meaning that more than 20,000 corpses would probably remain forever entombed under...
Among the problems that continue to bedevil Africa are war, inadequate transportation, and shortages of seed, fertilizer and plow animals. Says Robert McCloskey, external-affairs counselor for Catholic Relief Services: "The situation will remain fairly desperate over the coming year. The harvest is better, but the number of people in...
It is no coincidence that, with the exception of Botswana, all the countries faced with continuing food emergencies are racked by civil wars. In Ethiopia, fighting between rebels and government forces in the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea has severely limited farming. Catholic Relief Services estimates that 5 million...