Verbatim."So we think the Catholic Church has a problem?" --Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft, on a report that shows nearly 10 percent of students are targets of sexual abuse by public school employees. (Education Week, March 10) "I definitely think the pendulum is swinging toward a darker, more martial, macho concept of the Messiah." --Stephen Prothero, author of American Jesus (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, April 4) "For my part as a pro-choice law professor, the only thing more shocking than the alleged indifference shown to these babies by [their mother] is the equal indifference shown by pro-choice groups in blindly embracing this cause." --Jonathan Turley, on pro-choice groups' defense of Melissa Ann Rowland, who refused to have a C-section to deliver her endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. twin babies (The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , March 21) "I can't believe that at a Catholic school you couldn't suggest as an extra-credit assignment that the students watch The Passion with their parents.... [the movie] is 100 percent true to the gospel." --Stephen Hathorn, a seventh-grade teacher fired for the R-rated extra-credit offer (The Sacramento Bee, April 3) "I was a lousy lous·y adj. lous·i·er, lous·i·est 1. Infested with lice. 2. Extremely contemptible; nasty: a lousy trick. 3. nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God." --Religion scholar and bestselling author Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong (b. November 14 1944 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. (The New York Times, April 4) |
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