Word: counselors
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Manuela was more than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state...
...long afterwards, a counselor to Louis XV wrote admiringly that "La Tour is becoming the portraitist a la mode." Louis summoned La Tour to Versailles, where he limned the monarch's handsome features, as well as those of the royal family and Madame de Pompadour. Other commissions naturally followed. Along with other prominent painters of the day, he was soon awarded quarters in the Louvre, which then served as a royally endowed artists' colony. In 1750 Louis named him official court painter...
Inside many a modern Roman Catholic priest nowadays seethes a latter-day Luther crying to be born. One troubled cleric who has let the rebel inside him speak out is the Rev. James Kavanaugh, 37, a diocesan priest of Lansing, Mich., now serving as a counselor to a private mental health foundation in California. In a new book entitled A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (Trident; $4.95), Kavanaugh unleashes a bitter, searing attack on the foibles and faults of Roman Catholicism, which he still professes to love and serve. Thanks in large measure to its shock value...
Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., former nun, president of Webster College. Articulate and courageous innovator, perceptive teacher, wise counselor in the highest national cabinets, co-searcher in the cause of open-ended truth, you confirm the future of liberal learning...
...excess" income to the organization. They may marry and have children ("Chastity does not mean celibacy"), but they must remain faithful to the "spirit" of chastity. Single members, moreover, must agree to go anywhere that Opus Dei sends them, and all must follow the guidance of their religious counselor...