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...course no individual then or now has ever been solely responsibility--after all. Boniface VII did declare that "every human creature" was "subject to Roman Pontiff." Although this edict has recently been ignored, popes do not have a very good record of taking the side of justice...
...appears to be a mosaic-like pattern, belying the popular image of cavemen in crude skins. "The person who made the clothes initially was obviously skilled. This indicates that the Iceman was in some way integrated into a community," says prehistorian Egg, who is restoring the clothes at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, Germany. As for the repairs, made with grass thread, Egg says, "We assume he did them himself in the wilderness." Shredded during the Iceman's recovery, the garment arrived at Mainz in nearly a hundred pieces and with so many bits missing that...
That goal is not yet within reach in Guatemala. Its current government and the guerrillas have been talking for 18 months in search of a negotiated settlement. But a recent report from the Roman Catholic human-rights office charges that the government "continues to demonstrate the political tradition of terror." Activists in civil rights and grass-roots organizations are still receiving death threats, and in the first six months of this year there were 253 political assassinations. Menchu was only visiting the country last week. She now must decide whether to try to live there...
...Roman Catholic archdiocese in Turin, Italy, has stirred up a fuss by printing signs for all its churches in an effort to drive away beggars. Printed in Italian as well as Arabic -- the language of many of the city's poor -- the signs read, in part: We don't want to buy useless, superfluous goods, or see you begging. Explains Father Gianni Sangalli: "Every Sunday large crowds of immigrants gather at the doorstep of many churches in Turin asking for charity or peddling useless objects...
...performed by all Muslims, and has been a part of African animistic religions as far back as records exist. Santeria's spiritual roots reach back 4,000 years to the Yoruba tribe in southern Nigeria. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the slave communities of Cuba blended worship of Roman Catholic saints with their ancient African rites...