Word: pastorales
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Under pastel parasols on a pastoral set, the stars gathered for a Victorian garden party: Maureen O'Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Fritz Weaver, Celeste Holm. But there was not a film crew in sight. The occasion? A benefit to revive the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, N. Y., an event...
It was a different Carter who mounted the dais at Anthony's, different from the folksy campaigner who found so much in common in his own pastoral Southern roots and those of the Italians of the North End. When the new Carter mused autobiographically, he omitted stories about his years...
Quinn also contended that the church cannot "credibly" treat contraception without "clear and honest recognition" of the huge problems of world poverty and population growth. The church, he said, must go beyond "a simple repetition of past formulations" and search for "nuances and clarifications, further considerations and greater pastoral insights...
Last week, in one of the rare surprises of the campaign, the country's Roman Catholic bishops got into the act with a hortatory pastoral letter intended to be read in their churches on Sunday. Without naming a candidate or party, the letter inveighed against the expanding role of...
The ministry survey began when the Association of Theological Schools started wondering whether seminaries were turning out the sort of graduates congregations actually want. To find out, a research team developed a list of 444 traits (e.g., "prays with laity in small groups" or "expresses own ideas freely") and got...