Word: parishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supplies, filed past banners bidding WELCOME BACK and HAVE A GREAT YEAR. After a brief morning meeting, the classes settled down and eased right into the 90-minute reading lesson that starts each day. "I don't get nervous anymore for the first day of school," says fourth-grader Parish Brown. "I feel like I never really stop coming...
Second, I could spell "Kevin McHale" very easily in 1986. I could also spell "Robert Parish" and "Larry Bird." I could even count to 16. Problem is, Bell wasn't even alive the last time the Knicks...
...easy-going and light-hearted style, famed novelist Saul Bellow read excerpts last night from his new novel Ravelstein to a large audience at the First Parish in Cambridge. He stopped afterwards to pose for pictures and meet with admirers...
...only to spread enough silt to slow the Gulf's encroachment on the city. Even if that's done (it would probably cost New Orleans its port), it's hard to believe the Missouri dams will be removed, so the land loss will go on. Pieces of Plaquemines Parish might remain above water a few decades longer. Ultimately, as the Gulf closes in, New Orleans--which is below sea level, abjectly dependent on levee protection--could find itself awash in the storm surge of a major hurricane...
Which returns us to Catholicism. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 set off what religion futurist Richard Cimino calls "an explosion of lay ministry." This, plus a persistent priest shortage, caused some parishes to approximate a female pastorate. Circuit-riding priests would stop by a church to celebrate Communion and hear confession. In between, however, women--church trained and often called pastor--ran the parish. Eventually there were at least 300 such arrangements (some say there were thousands), but after John Paul II's 1994 letter banning further talk of ordaining women, the movement tailed off. The Pope...