Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patriarch Paul Meouchi, 64, was made head of the Maronites, Lebanon's largest religious group, by Pope Pius in 1955. Genial, spade-bearded, Meouchi was pastor for 14 years in New Bedford, Mass., and in Los Angeles, and proudly recalls that as a U.S. citizen at the time, "I voted for Roosevelt in 1932." Believing that the church cannot survive if it clashes with dynamic Arab nationalism, Meouchi says: "Either we live with the Moslem Arabs in brotherhood, love and peace or else we must depart and vanish." To win back Lebanon's place as "mediator" between...
...family life: "Better to have a linoleum rug so kids can bring their friends home than a Persian carpet they can't set foot on," philosophized Texas Pastor Fordyce Detamore. Each family, he said, needs a "social secretary...
...family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with the splendor came word of Monteforte Irpino's terrible needs: the pastor asked Carmine to sponsor a sawmill in the factoryless village; the police chief wanted money for a sewage system. Smiling through it all, Democrat De Sapio promised to give $1,000 to the local orphanage, hospital and school, then climbed into his now-dusty limousine to drive the 23 miles back...
...attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
...ordained priest, and two years later went back to Russia, then in the throes of the revolution, where he served two years as pastor in Tiflis. One day he met an old woman named Djuga-shvili, who told him proudly: "My son once studied for the priesthood, too." Her son's other name: Stalin...