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Figuring that indoor meetings were dangerous, Mompesson moved Sunday worship into a nearby field. When pious townspeople gathered to pray for deliverance, they stood at some distance from each other. The rector and a Nonconformist minister were the only visitors to console the sick, grieving and terrified residents...
...involves the impact of Reagan's radical economics. His tax bill is based on untried "supplyside" theories that were rejected two years ago even by the Hill's senior Republicans when first proposed by Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator William Roth of Delaware. "Pray God it works," said Pennsylvania's Joe McDade, a G.O.P. moderate who voted for the bill with his fingers crossed. "If this economic plan doesn't jell, where are we going to get the money for anything...
Maintaining the spiritual element in his life "is a real effort," John explains. "It's much easier for me to walk into Draper knowing I might face 30 days in Billerica than it is to sit quietly in a chapel and pray and meditate for 20 minutes." But he tries to guard himself against what he calls "an idolatrous activism" by drawing upon the example of Dorothy Day, Dom Helder Camarra, and other Catholics in the activist tradition...
Part of that tradition involves patience in the face of uncertainty, and, save for the possibility of imprisonment, John Leary has few immediate plans. "What seems to be important now is finding people to live with, pray with, and work with, and see what comes from there. I think there's a tremendous temptation for those of us graduating from Harvard to jump from one speeding train to another, even if it's a downwardly mobile one. I have a commitment to what's happening here, to the people I'm living with, to the soup kitchen...
Throughout the world, Catholics flocked to churches to pray at special services for the Pope. At one such ceremony, in London's Westminster Cathedral, Basil Cardinal Hume delivered what may have been the most telling tribute to the Pontiff. Said Hume: "He is now at one with the countless victims of violence of our day. He, like them, has now followed in the footsteps of a Master who was himself so cruelly and callously tortured and killed. He, like his Master, refuses to condemn, is ready to forgive...