Word: asceticism
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Not one interview with anyone who has really had a transcendental experience graces the pages of this book. No discussion of the great Eastern religions that lie behind the cults appears. Not one sentence on the possible alternative interpretation of the cult movement is found--no hint that maybe people...
Each story discussed the church as well as the man, chronicling emerging theology and internal discord as well as papal deeds. We always tried, however, to find the detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar...
The Mehta move was the grandest, most publicized stroke of all: his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic to succeed avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. Not everyone in New York was delighted. Boulez had been a cool, ascetic leader. Mehta, by comparison, had a reputation...
Never too big for his red hat, the patriarch always kept a confessional to hear the sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English...
Yet Humanae vitae was not a stubborn, willful decision. It was the work of a pastor deeply concerned by the erosion of moral values. Throughout his life, Paul was an ascetic-a dedicated worker who pushed his frail body regularly through a schedule that lasted from 6 in the morning...