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...most enduring human institution” (that’s Bush’s way of referring to marriage)? Well, if our getting it on were celebrated without the ceremony, the mortgage and the lifetime commitment, we would probably all but stop running to the altar. I never thought I’d say it, but I think the Bush administration has got at least this one thing right: If my communities are any indication, I’d conclude that the more accepted premarital sexual relationships are, the later and less likely couples are to get married. Where Bush...
...George Harrison, like carnies setting up a tent, began repurposing the cafeteria at the Loganville, Ga., middle school. First they carried in a dozen fake potted plants; then they replaced the lunch tables with a set of heavy risers. Next came an electric organ, boxes full of things like altar cloths and processional candles, and a rack bearing priestly vestments. By 9 o'clock the cafeteria was no longer a cafeteria; it was the sanctuary of the Holy Cross Anglican Church, where the priest, a magnetic 45-year-old named Foley Beach, led his flock in solemn yet joyous worship...
...quest for self-sufficiency and extra funds means other activities as well. Beyond cooking and cleaning, Sister Veronica tends the monastery's vegetable garden, Sister Antoinette packages altar breads for other parishes, while Sister Maria is preparing the monastery website to sell home-made rosary beads and stationery. (Three "extern" sisters, who live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very...
...Richard sent John to the Institut Montana Zugerberg near Zurich, a strict place with only a handful of English-speaking boys. "At first I was homesick as hell," Kerry says. Raised a Catholic, Kerry says he found comfort and company in church, becoming quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back from vacation and spouting 'Spaccare la faccia, porco!'" Cam says with a laugh. The phrase...
...other thing that I learned about was the impact of my whole life on my marriage. You bring the person you are to the altar, not just the person you want to be. Hillary made me a heck of a lot better a fellow than I would have been otherwise. But I was still the person I was as a child. We dealt with all that, and I talked to my daughter about all that. It was really a good thing. I believe in this. I believe that even marriages that end in divorce, maybe even especially marriages that...