Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
...from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
...Paden, 33, a minister of the fundamentalist Churches of Christ, looked out of his window in Rome last week to find 40 armed carabinieri at his door. Soon after, as members of his congregation began to arrive for Sunday services at the chapel downstairs, the carabinieri waved them away. Pastor Paden went downstairs to remonstrate. He urged the carabinieri themselves to come inside to hear his preaching. Said their commander: "Why would you let us attend your services? We are all Catholics." Answered Evangelist Paden: "All the more reason for us to save your souls." The carabinieri just went...
...Pastor Paden and his fellow ministers were not giving up; they were holding services wherever possible. Said Paden: "You can close the doors of the church buildings . . . The Church is God and you cannot close Him down ... I guess we were more aggressive than the others in the service...
...Pastor Spanuth plans no more diving trips soon, because he has run out of money. He is already satisfied that he has found Atlantis. What about the gold that encrusted the lost city? He is a scholar, replies the pastor, not a treasure hunter. But the golden idols and buildings probably still lie under the North Sea sands. "It is possible," says Pastor Spanuth, "quite possible...