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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, The Pope, William H. Keeler, Judaism, Roman Catholicism
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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: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Christian Orthodoxy, The Pope, William H. Keeler, Judaism
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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: Halethorpe, Christian Orthodoxy, Vincent de Paul, The Pope, Sexual Assault
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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: Elections, Germany, Genocide, United Nations, Los Angeles Times
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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: Music, Entertainment Events, Opera (genre), Heinrich Heine, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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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: Amanda Foreman, Ansell Limited, Hospitals and Clinics, Literature, Chicago Tribune
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Theater review: 'Old Wicked Songs' at the Colony Theatre
Culture MonsterMargaret Gray reviews "Old Wicked Songs" at the Colony Theatre.... -
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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: John Coltrane, Ingmar Bergman, Fashion Shows, Music Industry, CBS Corp.
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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: Germany, Freedom of the Press, Police Arrests, Book, Austria
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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: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Christian Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, Birth Control, Civil Rights
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