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After Representative Robert Bauman, a Maryland Republican, was arrested in 1980 on charges of soliciting sex from a teenage male prostitute, his world fell apart. He lost his seat in Congress. His marriage broke up. His faith, Roman Catholicism, demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative colleagues disowned him while his former enemies on the left showed compassion. This realization, which inspired a newfound fervor for civil rights, forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started...
...said the "conditions of our captivity are very bad. They are far worse now than when Father [Lawrence Martin] Jenco was with us. Truly they are bad." Jenco, a Roman Catholic priest, was freed July 26 after being held 19 months...
Those words affected almost every aspect of the faith. Long before Calvin, Augustine championed predestination; before Luther, he taught salvation by God's mysterious grace, not by good works. Augustine more than any other writer defined Roman Catholic teaching on the Trinity, conditions for waging a "just war" and the "original sin" of Adam and Eve that corrupts all humanity. With the latter teaching, complains French Philosopher Jean Guitton, "he weighed down Christianity with his pessimism...
Just before Augustine's time, the Roman Empire had officially embraced Christianity. As a new bishop, Augustine was still hoping to use reason to win over the maverick sects that were disrupting Christendom. But by A.D. 400 he was turning to the state to enforce doctrinal conformity. St. Jerome, the translator of the Latin Bible, wrote approvingly, "Catholics revere you and accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance...
...irrevocably old. He is aquiver with outrage over this unseemly development. Harvey has other specific worries: he is impotent; he is a hypochondriac; he is self-pitying because as an architect he has become only prosperous, not great. In the course of the weekend he flirts with suicide, Roman Catholicism, other women and fortune telling -- everything but an honest confrontation with himself...