Word: lent
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...editors then proceed to equate opposition to abortion with the beliefs of Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the morality of receiving medical care. This argument obscures the fact that for pro-lifers, abortion is not merely a private sin (as, say, eating meat on Fridays in Lent is for Catholics) but a public crime: the deliberate taking of human life. And opposition to abortion is not a peculiar tenet of a single Denomination--rather, it is common to nearly all orthodox western religions, ranging from Missouri Synod Lutheranism to Shi'ite and Sunni Islam, and from Russian Orthodoxy...
...fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana beer...
Ever since the Bob Jones University debacle, Bush advisers have been nervous about the Catholic vote. Bush saw an opportunity, though, to make up for his past mistakes. This year, St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday during Lent, when Catholics are not allowed to eat meat. The traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner was in jeopardy. Upon hearing that the archdioceses of Boston and Fall River have given special dispensation to their parishioners to partake in the day's feast, Bush pledged to secure a papal blessing for all American Catholics to eat their corned beef this Friday...
Prominent officials with international development interests comprise an international advisory board for the center. And, at least one member of the board--Teresa Heinz of the H. John and Teresa Heinz Foundation--has lent her support to the drive with a hefty $1 million donation, half of which came in last spring. CID will receive the remainder this spring...
...stunning view of the stars, Moss contemplates why she never tires of watching elephants. "If you sit at an airport and watch the people, it's interesting but only two-dimensional. If you sit and watch people you know, say, at a family gathering, you see the uncle who lent some money but was never paid back, and you know all the family quarrels. It becomes so three-dimensional when you have all that history, so much more interesting. I don't think I could ever leave this place." She has become one of the family...