Word: chaplain
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...issue's appearance, students and faculty members came forward to declare their homosexuality. But it was Gomes' revelation that triggered by far the most heated response. Last month a 50- member student group called Concerned Christians at Harvard was formed for the specific purpose of winning Gomes' resignation as chaplain. It launched a campaign of prayer vigils, publicity and pamphleteering. "The reason we are asking Gomes to step down is not because he is homosexual," says founder Sumner Anderson, "but because he teaches that homosexuality is not sinful within the Christian church...
...Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that Pennsylvania had violated federal grant regulations by spending monies tagged for research overhead on alumni activities, art maintenance and the Chaplain's account, according to a statement from the university...
...year later, the church, to which 97% of Poland's 38 million people belong, is omnipresent and, in the view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...
...baffled recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent. It's difficult to adjust. "We encourage them to be an honored guest in the home for a while rather than come charging in to take over," says Marine Chaplain J.S. Kirstein, who oversees a homecoming-counseling program at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point...
Last Saturday they buried Thom Jenkins beneath the soaring pines of California's Sierra Nevada. As silence again envelops Dudley Cemetery, echoes of a U.S. Navy chaplain's words linger: "Thomas Allen Jenkins, your sacrifice will not be forgotten. Your courage stands as a beacon of liberty. You exemplify the U.S. Marine Corps motto, 'Semper Fidelis...