Word: bishoping
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...legend. He then experienced angelic visitations that empowered him to escape slavery and guided him to safety. Patrick eventually returned home, but continued to hear angels and the voice of the Irish, which encouraged him to return to walk amongst the Irish once more. After becoming a consecrated bishop, Patrick returned to Ireland and spent the rest of his life bringing Christianity to the region. People in the United States began observing the holiday after massive Irish immigration and the establishment of Irish communities in the early 20th century. But the focus of the day has shifted from religious ceremonies...
...bishop suggested that the realm of biotechnology was especially dangerous, which reflects church teaching that destroying an embryo equates with murder. But the original mortal sins had as much to do with attitudes as with acts. Greed might lead to theft, lust to adultery, but the sin began in the heart. Yet modern research does not seem wicked to many suffering patients or the doctors who hope to cure them; the church's sin is their salvation. Likewise the accumulation of excessive wealth: leave aside the historical irony of this charge issuing from the Vatican. What do we make...
...Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Va., surprised many by verbally committing to Harvard in October despite receiving interest from ACC and Big East schools, including Marquette, Virginia, and West Virginia...
...John Paul, aware of Fatima's earlier Russia prophecy and already in 1981 deeply engaged in his own fight against world communism, became convinced that he was the Bishop in white in the vision described by Lucia; that Our Lady had prophesied that he would be shot, but had then turned the path of the bullet at the last instant. In 1982, he made the first of several pilgrimages to Fatima. In 1990, he donated the near-fatal bullet to the shrine there, a gesture that sent fatimists into a renewed frenzy of speculation. In April of 2000, he resolved...
...portending the world's end: "It's all quite different from the massive carnage certain fevered brains like to imagine taking place," he writes. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger must have felt the same. In a "Theological Interpretation" that accompanied the publication of the third secret, he suggested that the Bishop in White could represent many popes, and put John Paul's personal pet interpretation as a question: "Was it not inevitable that he should see in it his own fate?" Fatima had simultaneously been reaffirmed, and domesticated...