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Will Michelangelo’s Vision Speak to Cardinals, as John Paul Predicted?
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gather to vote on a successor to Pope John Paul II, they will be meeting in the same place where cardinals have gathered for hundreds of years to elect the leader of their church: the Sistine Cha...
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COMMENTARY: Martha, Martha, You Are Worried and Upset About Many Things
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) I once sat across an airplane aisle from Martha Stewart and I know why she went to jail.
Watching her on that plane _ combing tiny unspecified flecks out of her hair for a thousand miles while dictating loudly to a young woman who seemed mor...
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NEWS FEATURE: Rembrandt Exhibit Brings the Saints Down to Earth
c. 2005 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ The apogee of Protestant plastic arts has come to the National Gallery of Art, in the form of 17 religious paintings and 24 prints by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669).
Though painted barely 100 years after Martin Luther nailed...
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COMMENTARY: Sept. 11 Continues to Cast Long, Sacramental Shadow
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Grief arises at dawn as big and blinding as the sun itself. So it did on the recent morning when New York City's medical examiner's office announced that it ``had exhausted all possible means of identifying human remains'' from the Sept. 11 de...
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COMMENTARY: Purgatory Is Lined with Red-Hot Celebrities
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Which is more poignant, the reported emptiness of Michael Jackson's Neverland existence or the loneliness of Johnny Carson's life? Both men rose to wealth, power and fame by meeting the severe conditions imposed by America's entertainment cult...
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NEWS FEATURE: Show of Papal Portraits Reveals Faces of Pontiffs Over Five Centuries
c. 2005 Religion News Service
ROME _ An unusual exhibition of papal portraits gives a rare glimpse into the lives and times of the popes over a span of five centuries, starting with the bellicose but art-loving Julius II, who reigned in the 1500s.
``Popes in Pose: From the Renaiss...
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COMMENTARY: Freedom Is a Spiritual Value
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Freedom is not just a political good but a spiritual value, something far more sacred than secular. Nor is it just a condition for a thriving democratic community. Freedom is a fundamental condition for the growth of human personality.
Our v...
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COMMENTARY: Abu Ghraib Abuse Has Company in Immoral Universe
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) On Sunday, Jan. 23, the New York Times Book Review devoted its front page and almost three more inside pages to reviews of two books on the torture and sexual humiliation inflicted by some American soldiers on captives in now-notorious Abu Ghr...
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NEWS STORY: Claim: Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop Discovered in Florence
c. 2005 Religion News Service
ROME _ A cartographer from the Italian Institute of Military Geography claims to have discovered Leonardo da Vinci's workshop and home at the start of the 16th century, but art historians appear skeptical.
Roberto Manescalchi, 51, told a news conferen...
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NEWS STORY: Claim: Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop Discovered in Florence
c. 2005 Religion News Service
ROME _ A cartographer from the Italian Institute of Military Geography claims to have discovered Leonardo da Vinci's workshop and home at the start of the 16th century, but art historians appear skeptical.
Roberto Manescalchi, 51, told a news conferen...
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