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...daughter's travail, "I suspect hundreds of thousands of people can rest free, knowing that when death beckons they can meet it face to face with dignity, free from the fear of unwanted and useless medical treatment." At week's end he and his wife Joyce had decided to instruct the hospital in Mount Vernon, Mo., to remove the tube. Nancy, 33, is expected to die within two weeks of that action...
Once the avoidance begins to work, the patient cares less about the diagnosis. Fear loses its power to instruct. Urgency vanishes before magic. The country glides into a toxic subjectivity. The eyes glaze a little, and clouds close over the glimpse of death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves...
...synod will ask John Paul to require seminary applicants to spend at least a preliminary year in a retreat house, deepening their spiritual calling and refreshing their knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Seminaries should also take more care in selecting the faculty who will instruct and guide new priests, the bishops proposed. And while on-the-job training in parishes became popular in the years after Vatican II, seminaries are now going back to the basics, with heavier emphasis on daily prayer and the study of theology, particularly the writings of the early church fathers...
Although professors may agree to supervise and instruct a summer intern, students are usually not highly qualified, and are seldom direct assistants to their "mentors...
...other way. But after Israel pulled out and established the security zone, the politicians in Jerusalem realized that the world was holding them responsible for the behavior of their Lebanese proteges. The army sent experts to teach Lahad's men how to run a proper jail and to instruct them in sophisticated interrogation methods to minimize the use of torture and physical force...