Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exist today." After leaving the mystified reporters, the mayor returned to a basement conference room in his executive mansion to brief city officials on the new system. And what had he asked the city officials to do? a reporter inquired. One of the officials gave a brief answer: "Pray...
...Fair Mother, we pray for thy help ere we turn Toward the doubt and darkness ahead...
Last week the scandal provoked the first outright protest against Pinochet's increasingly personal dictatorship. Four thousand people, including three bishops and 30 priests, crushed into Santiago's Lourdes Basilica to pray for the missing persons and their families. With all political meetings outlawed, a religious service is virtually the only form of assembly permitted in Chile...
...against "he who shames a scholar." Lorincz offered a Talmudic citation in reply: "Where God's name is put to shame, there is no obligation to pay respect to the rabbi." The decree orders the "whole House of Israel" not to eat, drink, talk or pray with the outcast. But far from being ostracized, he was soon receiving a stream of well-wishers. Said one member of parliament: "Declaring someone ostracized today is just empty mouthing. The rabbinate is behaving as if it were living a hundred years...
...last Holy Year in 1950, indulgences were still much on the mind of pilgrims as they visited St. Peter's and three other basilicas, reciting the required number of Our Fathers and Hail Marys. In 1975, a full ("plenary") indulgence is still offered to pilgrims who pray in at least one of the basilicas, or to persons who join local pilgrimages if they are unable to travel to Rome. In the new interpretation that emerged out of Vatican II, Pope Paul has emphasized that the church's aim in granting indulgences is not only to "expiate" deserved punishment...