Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative theory currently gaining favor among observers is that the ascent of U.S. Catholic families into the middle class has given sons a wider range of career opportunities. Monsignor Paul Cook, 62, pastor of St. Joseph's, remembers what happened after he sensed his calling to the priesthood: "When I told my parents about my interest when I was 13, they were thrilled. Today a young man is in college, and the parents are paying to have him prepare for engineering or law, and he says he wants to be a priest? More often than not, they...
Others, such as Nat J. Pastor '99 and Jean B. Branstetter '99, said they were watching part of the football game between the New England Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday afternoon...
...Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper stood in the back of the church listening to their own funeral sermons, they heard the pastor draw "such pictures of the graces, the winning ways and the rare promise of the lost lads" that everyone present "felt a pang that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys...
...Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks me, 'Why do y'all sing about so much sex?'" says Jodeci's Dalvin (all the group's members go by their first name or nickname), whose father is a church pastor. "I tell her, 'Mom, we can't go halfway. We ain't no fake group. It has to be real...
Bragg is positioned to someday assume such a role on the larger stage of local or national politics. He has powerful mentors, including the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of Harlem's influential Abyssinian Baptist Church...