Cardinal

recognition in the face of the Catholic Church’s sexual scandals, while inciting the audience to follow his blatant confession. According to the documentary, much of the blame lies on O’Grady’s supervising bishops, including Cardinal Mahony. In taped court depositions, Cardinal Mahony and another Church leader appear mumbling, squirming and lying very…

Although Carol Joseph Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, and grew up in a war torn world, he strove for peace and reconstruction while the Catholic church was rebuilding. Pope John Paul was born in Poland in 1920, and while he studied for priesthood the Nazis invaded Poland. Although Catholics and Jews were persecuted during World War II, John Paul continued his studies and became a priest in 1946 after the war. And through his hard work John Paul became a bishop and eventually an archbishop,then in…

Emma Cooney (Stanley, Ensemble) is super psyched to participate in her second play at Seattle Prep. She may have been seen as a servant (Taming of the Shrew) or a petitioner (Pippin). She would like to salute her positively stupendous family for letting her spoil the plot of The Three Musketeers so she could tell all her terrific rehearsal tales. Lily Dowling (Sabine) is psyched to be in her fifth production at Prep. You may recognize her as Catherine (Pippin). She would love to thank the…

Jerusalem once professed, “The dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you, we go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” Flannery O'Connor believed that pride, one of the seven cardinal sins of the Catholic faith, is the root of all sin. In other words, O'Connor observed that vices are only committed as a result of one's inflated sense of self-appeasement. In her view, pride reveals itself as the ultimate dragon, tempting its…

The book's theme song would be “Run Boy Run” which reflects how we do unimaginable or crazy things when being threatened. The song illustrates a boy running, in the book the boy would Robert or the Catholics doing things that seemed crazy. In the novel Robert does things he never would’ve thought he would do. Because of this “Run Boy Run” would best fit for a theme song. The eerie and dark song “Secret” by the Pierces reflects the book's sinister mood. Like the book, it has images of death and…

I believe that the school need to require a social skills class for it’s students. I think a social class for kids would better help them with basic conversation, confronting other people, and talking to people outside of their own social circle. One reason kids need to be taught social skills in class is because they don’t know the fundamentals of a basic conversation. There are a lot more socially awkward kids now than any other time because all kids know how to do is text. texting does not…

Louis Cardinals, but sadly it wasn’t a very good start because we had lost the first two games in Kansas City but won only one of the two games played in St. Louis . So we are down 3-1 in the series again, The Royals had to play with all the fight they had left…

what a relief it is.” Carl spent the rest of the day singing a song for stomach relief. Carl liked to watch football, but only if Mikey was with him. The St. Louis Cardinals played that year for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, which Carl’s father was upset about. Carl’s dad was a Cowboys fan, but Mikey liked the Cardinals and their dad let Mikey know, what a damn fool he was for it. Football was the…

A bright red cardinal bird chirps outside your window as you hit snooze on your alarm clock. Your arms find themselves in front you, stretching as if they were a giraffe neck reaching for the leaves on the tallest tree, while you slowly begin to sit up in your bed. You can take your time getting ready for the day, open the enormous wooden door to your home, to find the sun shining brightly over God’s creation. This morning sounds peaceful, right? Think again. Imagine the cardinal pierced by an…

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was first and foremost an Italian sculptor, as well as, a painter during the High Renaissance. His piece entitled Pietà was created between the years of 1498–1499 in St. Peter’s Basilica (Kleiner). Gian Lorenzo Bernini was also an Italian sculptor and architect, but during the Baroque period. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa was finished in 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria (Kleiner). Though there is complexity in the…