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...were prayed for without their knowledge fared no better than patients who were not prayed for, and patients who were aware of being prayed for actually experienced more complications.While on the surface the study may seem to deal a blow to religions that believe in the power of prayer, in a Mar. 30 teleconference, the researchers stressed that they were not reading too much into the conclusions of the study.“It’s not unusual to have unanticipated results in such studies,” said Charles F. Bethea, chief medical officer at the INTEGRIS Baptist...
...Food comes so easily to us now, he says, that we have lost a sense of its significance. When we had to grow the corn and fight off predators, meals included a serving of gratitude. "It's like the American Indians. When they killed a deer, they said a prayer over it," says Fox. "That is civilization. It is an act of politeness over food. Fast food has killed this. We have reduced eating to sitting alone and shoveling it in. There is no ceremony...
...wins a green Ford thunderbird sports car and a 21 in color TV set after taking one of the ten top prizes in the Viceroy filter-tip naming contest.3/15: University takes its first stance on desegregation: the Divinity School permits its Chapel to be used for prayer for black ministers arrested on charges of encouraging a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 3/17: The biggest blizzard in march since 1888 hits Cambridge. A second blizzard three days later causes cancellation of four exams, and liquor sales to go up.3/27: George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, backs Health Secretary...
...Pope?s physical presence at Auschwitz - his gestures - were really the news. His deep prayers in front of the wall of death where prisoners were regularly executed; the two-cheeked kiss he shared with a Jewish survivor; his using German for the first time all trip to say a prayer at Birchenau. The visit followed two trips Ratzinger made to the camp a quarter-century ago as a Cardinal...
...alleged sexual abuse of seminarians dating to the 1940s, which he denies; in the first major abuse case to be handled by Pope Benedict XVI; in Vatican City. The Holy See declined to say if the allegations proved true, but called on Maciel to live a life of "prayer and repentance" and restricted him from publicly celebrating the sacraments...