Word: anguish
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Human institutions were poorly equipped to cope with the plague, or with man-made anguish like the Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1337 well into the 15th century, mainly because knights in armor could lay waste to a countryside, but, lacking siege cannon, could not usually capture a strongly defended walled town. There was a more fundamental reason for perpetual war, however. As Tuchman says of the English, "Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric...
...major initiatives. The issue also arose last month, when the African bishops' symposium issued moral denunciations of governments that are built upon lies, intolerance, political murders and "shameful enrichment of a small class at the expense of the broad masses." Above all, a Pope must continue to exemplify the anguish of Western Christians over the suffering of the world's poor ?as Paul did so eloquently?whether or not he is able to find a new way to address the birth control problem...
What Yates provides is a very cautious and narrowly limited range of realism, but within that range he is expert. He describes the anguish of a lumpy, unathletic student who later redeems himself by becoming editor of the school paper, after he has been stripped and abused sexually by a gang of healthy fools: "Grove was set free and ran to his room, and for hours after that, alone in the darkness, he lay wondering how he was going to live the rest of his life." This is acute and poignant; so is the author's evocation...
...Pope he inherited a revolution, then wrestled with it in spiritual anguish...
Paul became a study in anguish-wanting reform but fearing the consequences of too much too fast, trying to please progressives while placating conservatives. He said yes to more changes than any Pope since the 16th century Council of Trent: a thoroughgoing revision of liturgy, a streamlining of the Curia, an unprecedented rapprochement with other faiths. But his no could be emphatic and crucial: no to any genuine sharing of power with his fellow bishops, no to married priests, no to the ordination of women, and no-a still-reverberating no-to artificial birth control. The late Jesuit Theologian John...