Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, when the play's stint on the mainstage is over, the crew will return to life as normal. The producers and directors can return to their theses and Cibula can lay off the coffee until his next production...
Against Harvard Saturday, Gordie broke free after taking a screen pass from his quarterback. But he was run down in open field by Harvard's second-string safety. At the end of his run, Gordie lay exhausted on the turf...
Those disquieting questions linger after the 1987 synod, which was summoned to discuss the role of the laity. The month-long conference of 232 bishops from 92 countries, joined by 51 official lay observers, produced no significant accomplishments and few concrete recommendations. The emptiness was apparent both in the synod's platitudinous message to the church at large, and in the secret "propositions" sent to the Pope, the Latin text of which was obtained by news organizations...
Such traditionalists went to work after the synod broke into small discussion groups. Caution was urged by Third World bishops as well as by lay advisers, whose selection had been screened by the Vatican. A first draft of the propositions for the Pope stated that women should be admitted to all nonordained ministries. That would include authorizing altar girls (common at Masses in the U.S., despite Vatican disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee...
...rush to vagueness characterized the treatment of other issues: ways to incorporate the laity more fully into church life; whether Catholic politicians are bound to apply church teaching to society; and the role of lay activist movements, conservative and liberal. Some observers believe synod discussions have become less spontaneous, partly because of John Paul's concern that the bishops maintain a united front with him on doctrine and discipline, and partly because he sits in on most sessions. On the other hand, it may simply be that the diversity of national interests and viewpoints among the prelates makes strong policy...