Word: lula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club and was a member...
Carter was not the only prelate to resurrect the idea of married priests. Recognizing that evangelization involves the whole question of the church's ministry, Zaire's Joseph Cardinal Ma-lula asked that the bishops consider new ministries for which married clergy might be suitable. As for women's share in the ministry and their possible ordination as priests, Bishop Paul Verschuren of Helsinki suggested that an entire future synod be devoted to the role of women in the church. The very fact that such proposals could calmly be offered in the Pope's presence suggests...