Word: catholicization
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In a highly-publicized incident last month, the Columbia University Marching Band drew vehement criticism from Catholic leaders when it took a dig at the Church’s sexual abuse scandal.
He said it is particularly difficult to translate profanities, saying that vulgar expressions involving God or the saints are more common in Catholic countries such as his native Italy than in America or Germany.
Dr. Tarun Kumar Biswas and Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who treated Monica over several months, say their patient indeed had a lump in her abdomen, but it was not a full-grown tumor. "She responded to our treatment steadily," says Mustafi. Monica's medical records contain sonograms, prescriptions and physicians' notes...
The vacuum created by that silence is being filled by conspiracy theorists who see the Missionaries of Charity overeagerly producing proof that their founder is within the gates of heaven. That chorus is amplified by vociferous debunkers, among them Prabir Ghosh, head of the Science and Rationalist Association of India...
For a man who's appalled by the intellectual corruption of consumer culture, John Malkovich sure likes clothes. In fact, being John Malkovich begins with the outfit. At an audience with journalists last week in the library of Les Salons France-Ameriques, a Second Empire mansion just off the Champs...