�Despite "overpoweringly negative" responses and "rampant noncompliance" of some Roman Catholics to Pope Paul VI's 1968 Humanae Vitae, which condemns contraception use, some Catholic leaders in the Detroit area ar increasingly promoting the encyclical letter, the Detroit News reports. Some priests in the area aforementioned church members are expressing a growing interest in the document's teachings (Krupa, Detroit News, 8/20). "Humanae Vitae," which translates to "On Human Life," is a text file that says most Catholics should abstain from victimisation "artificial birth control" (Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 5/12).
A conference on Humanae Vitae is scheduled for next month at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. Janet Smith, a professor at the seminary, aforementioned, "Our purpose is to deepen the understanding of the teaching, so that it will be accepted by Catholics, and to make them better defenders of it." She added that the seminary too is "trying to meet those world Health Organization have jilted it to reconsider and hopefully to accept it."
Some surveys have shown that more than 90% of sexually active Catholic women have used some form of birth control, and about the same share of Catholics believe the church should permit members to use condoms and oral contraceptive method. However, Robert McClory, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Detroit, aforesaid the jr. generations "non involved with the vividness of the introduction of Humanae Vitae" view the document as a "young approach" to sexuality. He said that the matter most a great deal is elevated in marriage ceremony preparation courses, adding that some lester Willis Young couples are beginning to show a willingness to follow the encyclical (Detroit News, 8/20).
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NPA 'Service Era' Workshops At BPC 2008, UK
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Amy Winehouse Hospitalized!
In a not so shocking development, troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been taken to a London hospital after a mysterious fainting incident at her home.
"Amy was at home this afternoon when she briefly fainted," explains the Grammy winner's rep, Tracey Miller. "Fortunately, her manager's assistant was there to stop her falling. She quickly recovered and her father Mitch took her to hospital as a precaution."
According to reports, Amy is currently getting tests to determine the cause of the fainting, and her reps say she doing better, and that she may be kept overnight for further observation.
This is the 24-year-old's second hospitalization in less than a year. Last August, Amy was admitted for "severe exhaustion," causing many to speculate it was a rehab stint.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
California Guitar Trio
Artist: California Guitar Trio
Genre(s):
Rock
Instrumental
Discography:
With Tony Levin and Pat Mastellotto
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Rocks The West
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
An Opening Act - On Tour With King Crimson
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Yamanashi Blues
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
The California Guitar Trio consists of threesome musicians wHO are non necessarily California-bred; Bert Lams is from Belgium, Hideyo Moriya hails from Japan, and Paul Richards is the only aboriginal of the U.S.A. The three first crossed paths at a guitar seminar held at Robert Fripp's home in England in the late '80s. Lanis, Moriya, and Richards toured the U.S. and England as office of Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists until deciding to arm out on their own in the settle of 1990.
The band officially became the California Guitar Trio in February of '91, after relocating due to the fact that Lams was getting marital and was moving there anyway. By starting out playing small clubs and coffeehouses on the West Coast, the mathematical group shortly became well-known in guitar playing circles, thanks too to their Fripp/King Crimson connector. They were eventually sign to the Fripp/Crimson label Discipline Global Mobile, releasing 1994's Yamanashi Blues and 1995's Invitation. The mathematical group has toured intensely always since their debut, porta for King Crimson, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp (solo and with his Robert Fripp String Quintet), and John McLaughlin, as well as headlining shows themselves; Pathways followed in 1998, and two long time by and by the chemical group resurfaced with Rocks the West.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Dmx - Dmxs Defamation Case Is Dismissed
LATEST: Rapper DMX has seen a defamation lawsuit against him dropped after a judge ruled the star was not at fault for missing a scheduled court hearing in January (08).
The Party Up (Up In Here) MC - real name Earl Simmons - was forced to pay out $1.5 million (GBP750,000) to the mother of his child, after failing to turn up to a Maryland court earlier this year (11Jan08) to defend himself against allegations of defamation.
Simmons was sued by Monique Wayne for defamation of character in 2006 after the star claimed in a interview with American magazine Sister 2 Sister that he was raped by the woman during a hotel stay in Baltimore in 2003.
But the star was given a reprieve on Friday (16May08) after Maryland Judge Thomas P. Smith agreed the star was unaware he was due in court, reports AllHipHop.com.
The 37-year-old hired The Murphy Firm to contest the ruling.
Hassan Murphy, a managing partner of the company, says, "Today a very large judgment was vacated by Judge Smith.
"The judge clearly agreed with us that Mr. Simmons was never properly notified and therefore he threw out the judgment."
But Simmons is still mired by legal drama - earlier this month (May08) he was arrested on numerous motor vehicle charges. In a separate incident, Simmons pleaded not guilty to various felony drug charges and animal cruelty charges.
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Friday, 30 May 2008
Indiana Jones rides into Cannes film festival
Whip-wielding archaeologist Indiana Jones rides into Cannes on Sunday, with star Harrison Ford, director Steven Spielberg and creator George Lucas hoping to avoid a critical lashing.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the hotly anticipated follow up to the third chapter of the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade released 19 years ago.
With a red-carpet world premiere likely to be watched by thousands of fans in the Riviera resort and hundreds of reporters and reviewers, the Cannes launch guarantees maximum media exposure as well as intense critical scrutiny.
In 2006 The Da Vinci Code was showcased in Cannes and received a mauling from the critics.
While the cool reaction did not prevent it making an estimated $US760 million at the worldwide box office, it was an uncomfortable opening for the movie.
"It's always fun to come to Cannes," Lucas told reporters at a press event organised, unusually, before the first screening of the film.
"It's a nice place when it's not raining," he added, referring to cool and wet weather during the festival this year.
But he added that the risk of negative reviews from the festival's notoriously picky critics was "probably higher" than a launch in, say, Los Angeles, New York or London.
'TOMATOES THROWN'
Lucas also expected a backlash from the public, recalling how unpopular he was with many fans when he revived the original Star Wars franchise with the 1999 movie Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
"I explained to Steven when we sat down on this, I said ... when you do a film that's this anticipated, people have a tendency to believe it's going to be the second coming and no matter what you give them they're going to be disappointed.
"We're all going to get people throwing tomatoes at us. But it's a fun movie to make. We love it."
Ford was also confident the fourth Indiana Jones installment would wow viewers.
"We have a degree of confidence that it will be an experience that people will enjoy," the 65-year-old said, adding that there had been no attempt to hide his age.
The story of the Crystal Skull is set in 1957, 19 years on from the plot of the third movie in a franchise which has made over $1 billion at the global box office in 1980s dollar terms.
Ford teams up again with Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood, his love interest in the first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Shia LaBeouf also stars, and Australian actress Cate Blanchett plays Soviet agent Irina Spalko.
Asked if he, Spielberg and Ford were planning a fifth Indiana Jones movie, Lucas replied: "Harrison, Steven and I haven't talked about it. We can't do it unless I can come up with a good idea, which I haven't."
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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Borat star for new Spielberg film?
Borat star for new Spielberg film?
It has been reported that 'Borat' star Sacha Mogul Cohen has been roam in the newly Steven Steven Spielberg moving-picture show 'The Trial of the Michigan 7'.
The Dominicus Times reports that Baron Cohen will run 1960s counterculture icon Abbie Malvina Hoffman in the photographic film, which follows the anti-Vietnam War protesters wHO disrupted the 1968 Democrat party conventionality in the US.
Baron Cohen will next be seen on Irish cinema screens opposition Johnny Depp in the Tim Burton-directed 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Samuel Barber of Fleet Street'.
It opens in Irish Gaelic cinemas on Fri 25 Jan.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Madden says baby looks like Richie
Madden says baby looks like Richie
Rocker Joel Madden has said that his freshly baby daughter looks like her female parent, 'The Simple Life' star Nicole Richie.
In a web log, which he posted on the DCMA Collective internet site, Craze said: "I am finally house with my beautiful girlfriend and our firebrand fresh little girl."
He likewise confirmed the baby's diagnose in the mailing, referring to the newborn as Harlow Winter.
Madden said: "She is 19 inches long and growth everyday already. We ar so blessed to take this beautiful little baby in our lives."
He said that his daughter "looks so a good deal like her mummy it's crazy".
"She eats like a little maniac and she's very henry Sweet. She barely ever so cries, even when pa is changing her diaper, and believe me I suck when it comes to diapers, merely I'm acquisition," Madden said.
Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request
Angelina's lips top plastic surgery request
Eyes like Katie Arthur Holmes, the sultry pout of Angelina Jolie and a trunk like Jessica Biel are the looks most credit card surgery patients in Beverly Hills desire, according to a newly surveil.
The specific attributes of the three actresses topped the heel of the yearbook 'Hollywood's Hottest Looks' survey by the Beverly Hills Bring of Esthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.
According to doctors Richard Ian Lancaster Fleming and Toby Mayer, their clients ask for charge plate surgery non to face incisively like a specific star, merely to duplicate a distinct feature of various fame faces and bodies.
The most requested look-alike female nose was that of 'Grey's Anatomy' star Katherine Heigl, patch British people actress Keira Knightley was tops in the cheek department, and Paris Hilton had the almost sought-after pelt.
The features virtually desired by workforce were Leonardo DiCaprio's nose, soccer role player David Beckham's body and the blue eyes of the latest James II Bond doer, Book of the Prophet Daniel Craig. George Clooney's cheeks and Matt Damon's lips too got top billing.
Dr Fleming said: "Our patients continue to turn to Hollywood to lift their standard of sweetheart. Our patients need to appear rested, energetic and, most of whole, youthful like the celebrities they envision in glossy magazines."
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