Word: pastorale
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In the green meadows and pine forests around Kozarac and Prijedor, stands of poplars, apple and plum orchards, haystacks and fields of unharvested corn and sunflowers evoke a peaceful pastoral dream. But along the road to Prijedor, a burned-out house suddenly appears around a bend. Then more follow, and...
The same point is made by a more conservative thinker, Ronda Chervin, a philosophy professor at the seminary of the Los Angeles archdiocese. Chervin is one of the three official consultants on the bishops' pastoral letter who have remained throughout the project. She does not see the all-male priesthood...
The bishops are pressing ahead on another much discussed matter. The proposed pastoral letter endorses removal of gender-slanted language, and the process is already well along. In mid-May, the Vatican approved use of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (an example, from Psalm 8:4: "What...
At the moment, the American bishops can take comfort in the bedrock loyalty and surprising contentment among women parishioners. But the tug-of-war over the bishops' pastoral letter is only a foretaste of more severe conflicts that lie ahead. Hammered by new views of morality, authority, personal rights, the...
It is a Monday morning like any other at the pastoral Port Howard Farm on West Falkland Island. Several shepherds roam the 200,000-acre spread in Land Rovers and on motorbikes, tending the 45,000 woolly residents. In the main house, farm owner Robin Lee, 42, checks over farm...