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...visitor's driver, Davis, was a Luo from Lake Victoria, a hearty man of middle age with smiling open face and the public manner of a gregarious bishop. Davis considered himself a Roman Catholic priest. Into a notebook that he always carried, he had inscribed the text of the Latin Mass, copied from a missal that he had borrowed somewhere in his travels. Davis sometimes donned a long white alb and, all by himself outside the boma, performed services beside his Land Rover, chanting the Latin in a rich bass...
...controversy over feeding tubes, said J. Stuart Showalter, of CHA's legal department, is becoming one of the most perplexing ethical issues of the 1980s and '90s. Declared he: "Emotions rise, rhetoric becomes strident, and even among the experts there is no consensus." The problem is especially thorny for Roman Catholic institutions, because many right-to-lifers are demanding new laws against what they see as killing by "starvation." Aiming occasional barbs at the strict pro-life stance, most of those who met in Boston insisted that Catholic tradition accepts an end to feeding in medically hopeless cases...
Between these two dramatic points, Burgess strings a panorama of impressions, both personal and pertinent to his age. John Burgess Wilson (his pseudonym came later) grew up Roman Catholic in a Protestant country, "more of a Celt than an Anglo-Saxon." He was neither the first nor the last Englishman to feel estranged from his native land while learning to love its language and literature, but his generation was cut off from the past by the arrival of radio, the cinema, "American world hegemony, the dissolution of Christendom." When he begins losing his Catholic faith, the author confers with...
...Southern Baptist Convention, are among the record total of 39,309 U.S. and Canadian Protestants engaged in overseas mission careers. Adding "short-term" workers, who usually put in stints of less than a year, the North American Protestant foreign legion numbers 67,242 (in contrast to 9,124 Roman Catholics). It is sponsored by 764 mission boards (of which the Knapps' is the largest), with a combined income -- largely from donations -- of $1.3 billion a year...
...Aquino dissolved the National Assembly in March, elections for a new 24-member Senate and a 250-member House of Representatives have been scheduled for May. The document also contains sweeping guarantees of human rights, although it has been criticized by some legal observers for adhering too closely to Roman Catholic Church dogma. For example, the charter bans abortions outright...