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Crucial job awaits Cardinal Keeler at papal conclave
Sun National StaffWhen word of Pope Leo XIII's grave illness reached the United States in 1903, Cardinal James Gibbons booked passage on every steamship leaving for Rome, according to his biographers, lest he miss the opportunity to vote for the pope's successor. The...Tags: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Religious Leaders, Georgetown, World War II (1939-1945), Elections
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Ecumenical outreach was part of vision
Sun StaffPope John Paul II prayed in a synagogue and also met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He returned the relics of Orthodox saints and apologized for past church-inspired wrongs such as the Crusades, which caused widespread bloodshed in the Middle...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Yasser Arafat, Religious Leaders, World War II (1939-1945), Georgetown
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Crisis lands on Keeler's doorstep
Sun StaffIn the months that clergy sexual abuse of children has embroiled the American Catholic Church, Cardinal William H. Keeler has skirted the scandal. He has only reluctantly addressed the issue, speaking out much later than many of his fellow cardinals....Tags: Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Religious Leaders, Sexual Assault, Prosecution, Rape
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Elan Steinberg dies at 59; former head of World Jewish Congress
The son of Holocaust survivors, Elan Steinberg preferred to keep his family history private. But the fierce strategist and former leader of the World Jewish Congress was clearly motivated by it, according to observers, as he relentlessly pushed to...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Elan Corporation Plc, World War II (1939-1945), Cancer, City University of New York
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Theater Review: Compelling production hits all the right keys
First things first. There’s some fine piano playing in Jon Marans’ play, “Old Wicked Songs,” at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. No faking it here, as in many, if not most productions of this drama of longing, loss and letting go....Tags: Heinrich Heine, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Music, Opera (genre), Entertainment Events
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Theater review: 'Old Wicked Songs' at the Colony Theatre
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Favorites of 2011: Chicago-area authors
At the end of this year, we stop to recognize the wonderful work put out by authors living in or originally from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Here is the list of our favorite titles from 2011:
"The Year We Left Home" by Jean Thompson
An Iowa...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Amazon Kindle, Philosophy, Entertainment Events
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Pope John Paul II Dies at 84
Times Staff WriterPope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...Tags: Armed Forces, England, Yasser Arafat, Values, Easter
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Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: Armed Forces, Petroleum Industry, University of California, Berkeley, Jazz (genre), Super Bowl
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The rights of a 'paper Eichmann'
D.D. GUTTENPLAN, London correspondent for the Nation, is the author of "The Holocaust on Trial" (W.W. Norton, 2001). He is currently writing a biography of I.F. Stone.WHAT DO YOU DO with a problem like David Irving? Until a few years ago, the British author of "Hitler's War" was usually described as a "controversial historian." But in April 2000, a British high court judge held that Irving not only had denied the...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Freedom of the Press, Police Arrests, Local Government, Book
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