Word: pastoralizing
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...plunged him into a suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory seminary in Hannibal largely because of his admiration for a childhood parish pastor who "represented the awe I had for priests...
...Father Spagnolia and his crusade. When he held his press conference last Monday to announce that "I have done nothing" and "I demand due process," hundreds of children and adults filled the church pews. The city's mayor, Rita Mercier, a St. Patrick's parishioner, stood by her pastor: "He reminds me of myself. He's a fighter too." "Do you believe him?" my brother Kevin asked me an hour after my two-hour sit-down with Father Spagnolia. "I don't know," I said. "He offered so many things that are easily checked; he must be telling the truth...
...seems to agree, and patience is wearing thin. "The public thinks unions are just interest groups acting at the cost of public welfare," says Nam Sung Il, a labor expert at Sogang University in Seoul. Activists appear to have worn out their welcome at Myeongdong Cathedral too. Says associate pastor Lee Jun Sung: "The church shouldn't be exploited as an arena for this kind of fight," adding: "These people just barged in." To drive the point home, the church has cut off electricity to the cathedral...
After talking to his youth pastor and to his father about what he called his “compulsion,” Michael installed Surfwatch—a popular Internet filter—to avoid sex-filled websites. “I knew if I was a good Christian then I shouldn’t look at it, especially four times a week” he says. His mantra became a verse from the New Testament: “If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better...
...respect each other and asking the support of those watching. But the vows were a lot different from the ones they had taken 34 years earlier, at their wedding. "We are here to witness an end and a beginning and to share the making of new commitments," said the pastor. "Barbara and J.B. have decided, after much effort, pain and anger, that they will no longer be wife and husband." They were severing their marriage just as it had begun, with a ritual...