Word: pastoralism
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...every 650 American Catholics. By 2005, according to one survey, there could be one priest for every 2,200. Many American priests are overworked, demoralized by loneliness and scandal, underrespected. According to Gibson's statistics, more than 3,000 (out of 19,000) U.S. parishes are without a resident pastor, and about 2,400 are forced to share a pastor. In the meantime, the exodus from nunneries has been spectacular...
...little boy had spirits in him, and we were asking God to deliver him." RAY HEMPHILL, Self-proclaimed pastor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, charged with physical abuse to a child, after an 8-year-old autistic boy was crushed to death during an exorcism...
...Christian, and a Baptist Pastor. If gay marriages are legalized, I am prepared to spend the rest of my life in prison rather than support sinful behavior. The world has chosen to accept all manner of things as normal and permissible, but the Bible still describes homosexuality to be sinful. I openly protest promotion of this law, but if gay marriages become legal, get my cell ready because I will refuse to marry any homosexuals. Kenric A. Prescott Connecticut...
Struggling with faith becomes one of the major themes of "Blankets." As he nears the end of high school, Craig's pastor urges him to try the ministry. Craig has his doubts. These are fired in the crucible of a Christian winter camp that he attends every Christmas. Artistic rather than athletic and unable to pay the skiing fees anyway, he feels outcast by the uniform and exclusionary Christian community there. More importantly, during his junior year at the camp, he meets Raina, a pretty, thoughtful and similarly alienated girl. All at once, along with everything else, the book becomes...
...Irving Cummings, the openly gay pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church, which had helped to organize the counter-protest, said he was not worried their demonstration would give weight to the Phelps campaign...