Word: pastorale
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"The world's a ship on its passage out," Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, "and the pulpit is its prow." That may have been true at one time--but times have changed, moral authority has dispersed, the 1960s and '70s toppled many a preacher from his rostrum, along with other...
Female ordination may be one of the last live bones of contention between the Roman Catholic Church and its U.S. flock. Most American believers have long gone their own way regarding birth control or abortion. But that is not an option when it comes to who celebrates the sacraments, even...
Did Father Towle in fact hear, and then reveal, Jesus Fornes? private confession? Or was Towle simply providing what?s called "pastoral counseling" to a guilt-ridden young man? The answer could determine his future in the Church.
"If he has indeed violated the sacramental seal, he has already incurred an excommunication," Beal says. "That?s how seriously the church treats this issue." How does the Church determine whether a sacrament has taken place? It can be difficult, says Beal. "Unlike some of the other sacraments in the...
American Pastoral (1997) examines the fallout from the radical '60s on one New Jersey family, specifically on the suffering father of an unrepentant terrorist daughter. I Married a Communist (1998), set during the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s, traces that era's devastating effects on a...