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...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
...forum, entitled "The Role of Hispanics in American Politics: the 1990s and Beyond," brought together Hispanic leaders from local, state and national government posts. Nifa Segarra, a member of the New York City Board of Education, and Diane Davila '88, a legislative aide to Texas State Sen. Roman Martinez, spoke along with Richardson...
...eight years, Michael was the reporter-researcher of the magazine's Religion section and, on occasion, its writer as well. He was uniquely qualified to be arbiter of matters spiritual and temporal. He studied at a Roman Catholic seminary in upstate New York and had a Bachelor of Arts from St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate in classical studies from Cornell. Fluent in ancient and modern languages, Michael could -- and did -- read the Koran in Arabic, the Second Vatican Council decrees in the official Latin, and compare New Testament translations with the original Greek. A Maronite Catholic, Michael was grounded...
Despite Christianity's centuries of opposition to paganism, some old-line churches are opening up to the Goddess. A witch teaches in an institute at the Roman Catholic Holy Names College in California. A book by two United Methodist pastors proposes experimental Bible readings about the crucifixion that replace Jesus with Sophia (Wisdom), a name for the divine personality used by Goddess-minded Christians...
...equally crude versions of less sexually loaded images. The New York Times, rarely in doubt about Salle's virtues, hailed the new works as "Rococo," presumably because they are all pale, some have harlequins, and one of them recycles a bit of 18th century decor -- figures in a Roman landscape beside the Pyramid of Cestius. Such is the history of style...