Word: pastoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pastor here is a doll," said Catherine Castle, sitting at a table with Al and Viola DuPuis. "We're about to go to dinner, and this is just the nicest place to stop for a drink. The DuPuises are taking...
...pastor wandered over in a philosophical mood. "I think God intends us to be happy in this life," he said. "We all have our share of troubles." He said that when he was growing up he was an usher at Ebbets Field, in the days of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then he became a guide with Gray Line Tours. In 1950, he said, "I figured out maybe I could lead tours to heaven, and maybe I could sneak in a side door myself." For the moment, however, he led an elderly lady onto the parquet floor and commenced to execute...
...Policeman Earl Sands, Florida suspect accused of sexually abusing a six-year-old girl, surrendered last month to the pastor of a church he had attended; the pastor then accompanied Sands to the police station...
Child abuse, both sides agree, makes the issues particularly agonizing, because the person seeking religious counsel is often continuing the offense. "You have a helpless third person who may suffer while counseling goes on," says Lynn Buzzard of the Christian Legal Society. "I got a call involving a pastor who had been told by a husband and wife that the husband had sexually abused their child. The pastor was torn. He was concerned about the child, but he also said, 'My God, this is their first cry for help ever.' " The Rev. Charles Eastman, head of Miami...
During the first week of his trip John Paul quickly turned characteristic Canadian reserve into enthusiasm, as he switched with ease from exhortative Pontiff to caring pastor. At an outdoor Mass for an estimated 250,000 worshipers at Quebec City's Laval University, the Pope urged a "missionary effort" to develop a "new culture that will integrate the modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos...