Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole can be expected to take special care with his choice, and not only because he would be the oldest U.S. President in history if elected. Dole was a vice-presidential nominee himself 20 years ago, and his aides hope to score a big preconvention boost when the nominee announces...
And indeed the words of congratulation were portentous. "Welcome to this sin-sick world and the challenge you have to walk in your Daddy's footsteps," wrote one well wisher. "Dear Little Billy Frank Jr. ...We heard...that your Daddy has new help for preaching God's truth...So grow...
There are some, however, who might question the worth of his inheritance. The revivalist, traditionalist branch of American Christianity that Billy Graham led from the obscurity in which it had languished roughly since the 1925 Monkey Trial is now the most vital and aggressive spiritual force on the national landscape...
Katrina is certainly one of them. Her decision in 1885 to marry the son of Irish Catholic immigrants is not popular with her distinguished Protestant parents. Nearly 10 years later, Daugherty is a successful dramatist still trying to win over his in-laws with expensive gifts and nights on the...
Last week Van Cliburn was in the midst of a palimony lawsuit, but in 1958 he was preparing for Carnegie Hall after his triumph at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow: "Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler...he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During...