Word: pastorate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teacher of Vatican diplomacy who was pro-nuncio to Indonesia during the anti-Communist bloodbath of 1965, Pappalardo capably moved into his faction-ridden Sicilian diocese as a unifying leader. A fellow southern Italian with an outside chance is Corrado Cardinal Ursi, 70, Archbishop of Naples. A widely admired pastor of the poor, Ursi travels from parish to parish to be sure all his people are cared for. His serious drawback is his parochialism: he speaks only Italian and has never served outside the country. Ugo Cardinal Poletti, 64, vicar-general for the Pope as Bishop of Rome, has been...
...Humanae vitae was not a stubborn, willful decision. It was the work of a pastor deeply concerned by the erosion of moral values. Throughout his life, Paul was an ascetic-a dedicated worker who pushed his frail body regularly through a schedule that lasted from 6 in the morning until midnight, with little more than his meals and a siesta to break the day. Abstinent himself, he worried much and cautioned often about society's move away from traditional family patterns and its increasing self-indulgence. He warned that the rise of militant feminism risked "either masculinizing or depersonalizing...
...stop the wedding. The father's defense lawyer, however, says the Levitts opposed the wedding not because Christine was a Gentile Evangelical but because their son was unstable. Weeks before the original wedding date, a man who said he was with the Jewish Defense League called the pastor who planned to marry the pair and warned...
...dispensation so that his son can marry a Protestant. "I listen for the voice of God," says Cushing at one point, "but to tell you the truth, he don't speak my language. What I listen to mainly is pain." Warm words from a people's pastor, but did Cushing ever say anything like that? Did he, as the book also suggests, drown his painful illnesses in alcohol...
Born in Manhattan in 1904, Fats grew up in Harlem, where his father was a pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the establishment that Adam Clayton Powell Jr. later made famous. He started playing the harmonium when he was six, and his proud father took him to Carnegie Hall to hear Paderewski, hoping that Fats would become a classical pianist. Waller had other ideas, however, and when he was in his teens, he fell under the tutelage of Willie ("the Lion...