Word: clergyman
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...There he painted a lucid portrait of the couple's 16-year-old daughter before he lapsed into the madness that took his life. Portrait de Mademoiselle Ravoux survived, was bought in 1921 for $20,000, along with two other Van Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...campaign to conquer London for God is the most carefully planned of the evangelist's career. Advance preparation began in earnest 18 months ago, when Graham assistants set up offices overlooking Piccadilly Circus. Billy's organizers sent letters asking for cooperation to every Protestant and Anglican clergyman within 40 miles of London. The Rev. Robert Ferm, head of the enlistment team, talked to more than 4,000 clerics; 2,000 churches agreed to help the project...
...postgraduate center -- tentatively titled the Institute for Church and Society--would coordinate the study of particular practical problems. After a clergyman had worked in his church for a decade, Coburn explained, he would return to the Institute to spend one or two semesters in a close examination of a single issue, such as civil rights, drugs, abortion, or war. For his work, he would draw upon the resources of corporations, volunteer groups, and universities as well as theological schools...
...genius for adjusting to the changing spirit of the times while upholding the integrity of its traditional teachings: it qualifies every categorical "must" with an implied "but." Mixed marriages, to be valid in the eyes of the church, must be performed by a Catholic priest. But henceforth, the clergyman of the other partner's faith may be present at the wedding ceremony, deliver a sermon, say prayers. The non-Catholic partner must be "clearly told of the obligation to raise the children of the union as Catholics" and of the "unity and indissolubility" of the marriage. But the pledge...
...annulment from Josephine because the required two witnesses were not present at the marriage. Last year, the New York Archdiocese got 1,500 annulment petitions, of which it granted nearly half-mostly on the "technical defect" that the marriage was contracted before a civil authority or non-Catholic clergyman...