Word: catholicism
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The Catholic congregation agreed in the summer of 1987 to sell Davis its rectory and parking lot for more than $7 million. All of the money was to have paid for new construction across the street.
But the contract with Davis required St. Paul's to deliver the lot in a condition acceptable under state environmental standards--so the parish now faces heavy cleanup costs, said Sister Mary K. Powers, chaplain of the Harvard Catholic Student Center.
No sooner had cheering crowds welcomed Pope John Paul II to tiny Lesotho (pop. 1.6 million) last week than the cool night air erupted in explosions and flashes of light. But these were not fireworks welcoming the Pontiff. Blocks from the route the Pope's motorcade had taken through Maseru...
When John F. Kennedy '40 ran for the White House in 1960, a campaign to which the current candidate from Massachusetts is fond of referring, he was the first Catholic to stand a serious chance of becoming president. It was an issue that he was Catholic. Not because it should...
Kennedy was the first Catholic; Dukakis is the first ethnic candidate, the first child of immigrants of the late 19th century to attempt to push the parameters of the American dream. Those immigrants experienced prejudice, learning that a last name which sounded foreign brought them abuse more often than a...