Word: pastoralized
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From overseas a perplexed soldier wrote to his pastor at home: "In the Bible it says, Thou shall not kill. We are trained to go out with that purpose. I can't get that straight...
When the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. elected its new moderator (an annual affair) last May, many of its 2,090,000 members knew very little about the new incumbent. Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, 59, was a relatively obscure Indianapolis pastor, with a reputation for somewhat meek piety...
...newspaper accounts from the triumphant FBI, residents of James Street quickly learned more about their neighbor: he was a naturalized citizen, and a Lutheran pastor for more than 20 years in northern New Jersey, until a trip to Germany in 1941. In Berlin, said the FBI, he had talked with Walter Kappe, boss of the Nazi saboteur school. When he returned to the U.S. (via Barcelona, nine days after Pearl Harbor) he quit the pulpit, became a bookkeeper...
...eight Nazi saboteurs who landed in the U.S. by submarine in June 1942 led the FBI to Krepper. As the FBI methodically ran every inch of the saboteurs' clothing through invisible-ink developers, an address appeared on a plain white handkerchief. It was: "Pas [Pastor] Krepper, Route 2, Rahway...
...spine-chilling ceremony. In sepulchral gloom a light plays fitfully on a blood-spattered bier, on which lies a lifelike "corpse" wrapped in a black shroud. Into the "corpse" a dagger has been plunged to the hilt. Letters of blood spell the word Verraad (treachery). A predikant (pastor) intones: "He who betrays the Bond will be destroyed by the Bond. The Bond never forgets." Membership lasts "till death." Broeders recognize one another by secret signs, handclasps, passwords...