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Three Noises. The Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, intoned the last rites. Fortified by a bit of contraband whisky smuggled into the prison, Gilmore remained calm as the state medical examiner pinned a target over his heart. Nor did he flinch when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...
...woman patient: "She will be a keystone because of her love of people, her stamina, her inner strength." Later at the Women's Prison, inmates greeted the new priest with hugs and kisses. "Maybe I can make it too," one said. As the diocese's institutional chaplain, Means will have priestly duties similar to those she had as a deacon for the past two years, except that she can now celebrate the entire Communion service...
...more letters from students morally opposed to abortion are likely to come in The Rev. Thomas F. Powers, the Catholic chaplain for Harvard, said yesterday he has talked to a lot of students who do not want to participate in the abortion plan but who have not yet gotten around to writing the letter...
...Thomas F. Powers, chaplain for the Harvard Catholic Students Center, said yesterday he believes the new policy respects the right of students who disagree with the program to withdraw from it entirely. Powers acknowledged that many consider abortion coverage important--a sign, perhaps, that those who oppose non-therapeutic abortions will probably be satisfied with the UHS policy...
Reverend Paulanne Balch is also a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and is a graduate of Andover-Newton School. She is presently a chaplain at Mt. Auburn Hospital. She says that "born again" is the experience of psychic birth marked by a profound sense of self-recognition and participation in one's life and culture. There is an acknowledgment of the condition of one's life and an experience of pain connected with the loss of illusions. Then a descent, a letting go. Finally, she adds, there's a resurrection where the body is healed; "the scales fall...