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Contraccezione, Paglia riapre il fronte: «Cambiare si può»

Modificare la dottrina sulla contraccezione? Per monsignor Paglia «verrà il giorno in cui il Papa lo farà, va preso in considerazione». La sconcertante intervista del presidente PAV a The Tablet che si ricollega agli auspici della Civiltà Cattolica su un’enciclica che superi definitivamente Humanae vitae. In un concentrato di risposte patetiche si affastellano confusamente, spacciati per…

“I was sort of numb.”

It was a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo that struck dumb New York Philharmonic Principal Percussion Christopher S. Lamb. The Michigan native was on tour in Europe with the Philharmonic when he got a late-night call from his wife. “I kept it to myself, I didn’t really say much about it,” he admitted afterward. But eventually, people heard the news, and he returned home to 10 pages of congratulatory e-mails. The award was proffered for his recording of Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra — which the New York Philharmonic commissioned and premiered with Lamb as soloist in 1995. The percussionist, who joined the New York Philharmonic in 1985, started on his instruments early: he received a snare drum from his parents in the second grade, along with private lessons. “I was really energetic and playing on everything,” he recalled. “I guess they wanted to direct that energy.” It seems to have paid off.

What have you learned from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?

Christopher Lamb, Special Adviser to the Australian Red Cross and the IFRC

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