Word: catholicization
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While it remains extremely unlikely that the Varela demands would be adopted, it's a sign of an emerging civil society in Cuba challenging the communist party's monopoly on power. That's a development that has been consciously encouraged by the Catholic Church in the years since Pope John...
In a country where the Prime Minister, Wim Kok, famously likes to ride a bike to work, Fortuyn's flamboyance was a political statement in itself. He traveled in a Daimler with a fender flag bearing the family crest, employed a butler named Herman, wore tailored Italian suits and oversized...
Which, in the case of Robert Hanssen, a proselytizing arch-conservative Catholic who claimed to be devoted to his wife and six children, is still, as one investigator puts it, "an enigma."
As a Catholic struggling to keep the faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have...
Hanssen's story is irresistible. The archconservative son of a Chicago cop, he worked diligently for the Russians. An ultra-orthodox Catholic, he sent nude pictures of his wife to his best friend and, in one of the weirdest discoveries of the Mailer/Schiller research, proposed that his friend use the...