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As the BC Eagles’ opponent last Saturday was Notre Dame, the scene could quite comfortably have been pulled from Rudy. Burberry? Check. Pashminas in school colors? Check. Lily-white Catholic kids listening to 50-cent? Check. The tailgate featured well-behaved if moderately inebriated students and their parents...
One thing you must do before graduation: Find a nice Catholic Prince Charming and shack up.
Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro...
Some critics of the film (notably Frank Rich of the New York Times) argue that the Gibson’s Catholicism is out of touch with contemporary Catholic thought, since the Second Vatican Council absolved the Jews of the guilt of murdering Jesus. This criticism is not accurate. All four gospels depict the Jews of the time, or at least various Jewish authorities, as responsible for Jesus’ death. The Gospels state that the Romans actually executed Jesus, but that the Jews put them up to it and are to blame for it. Nothing that was said or done...
“Kennedy was a firm believer in the U.N.,” said Sorensen. “With the help of Muslim, Catholic and secular countries, the United States would be much further along in this war on terrorism.”