Word: pauling
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...Longfellow's lyrical style makes me refer to him as the Irving Berlin of American poets," says House Guide Paul D. Blandford while conducting a tour...
...intermediary between believer and God, was profiting from this fear. For a price, the appropriate cleric would perform merit-building practices like prayer, penance or pilgrimage on one's behalf. The sale of such "indulgences" financed many a medieval cathedral. Retreating to his New Testament, Luther considered St. Paul's letter to the Romans. Human "works," preached Paul, could not affect anyone's eternal life; "Justification"--the state of being right with God --was based on a single principle. "On the principle of works?" Paul asked. "No, but on the principle of faith." And faith resulted not from human striving...
Rome's response, however, suggests that Pope John Paul II may see a few contradictions. Without denying that salvation always begins with God's grace, the church refuses to relinquish some cooperative agency on humanity's part through, say, penance or charity. This and several other "divergences" are forcefully enough stated that German Lutheran Harding Meyer, one of the Joint Declaration's drafters, declares, "This is the worst news I've received during my whole career. This is not a basis for continuing the dialogue...
...PAUL GILMARTIN, host of TBS's Dinner & a Movie: "Showgirls [1995] is the worst American movie, and the most entertaining. Also, Road House [1989; 7] is so bad it's good, especially when Patrick Swayze says, 'Pain don't hurt...
Christians and Jews alike are fascinated with the prospect that POPE JOHN PAUL II will make his first visit to Israel to mark the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth in A.D. 2000. The Pope is ardently interested, but plans have long been entangled in politics and diplomacy. Now the Pope is also exploring a visit to Iraq. ROGER CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations...