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...contour considerably. At first they elaborated his story to buttress embattled doctrines like the virginity of Mary. Later interpreters repurposed him to respond to crises in the church or in society, as various Popes raised up the image of Joseph as the Family Father, the Worker, or the patron of the entire church. It is a varied cavalcade, and it can be hard to imagine all those Josephs meshing into a single personality; but then, a certain capaciousness is practically a job requirement for a biblical figure. Notes the Rev. Joseph Chorpenning, editorial director of St. Joseph's University Press...
...model for her order and named 12 of 17 monasteries after Joseph. "The devotion snowballed," says Chorpenning, and the Earthly Trinity, as Jesus, Mary and Joseph came sometimes to be called, took Catholic Europe by storm. It had also leaped to the New World, where Joseph became the patron saint of both "New Spain" and "New France." He remains the official saint of Catholics in Mexico and Canada...
...Kennedy Jr. Forum last spring—but the relationships are short-lived. The new leadership needs to form long-term institutional ties to diverse student groups instead of repeated brief encounters. In order to do this, the IOP should be willing to take on the role of patron for well-established student groups that just need a more regular source of funding and space for their events. This alone would diversify the undergraduate population wandering in and out of the building and bring fresh blood into contact with the regulars...
...They just let me rot." BOB DOUGHERTY, Home Depot patron in Boulder, Colorado, on suing the company after store employees waited 15 minutes to respond to his cries for help?which they believed to be a hoax?in getting unstuck from a restroom toilet seat someone had smeared with glue
Smith does a phenomenal job playing a very demanding part as Miss Roj, a transsexual nightclub patron. While he seems hilarious and over-the-top at first, Smith’s intensity grants his emotional content room to fall through the cracks in his facade, deftly addressing the challenges of gay black life...