Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas of Peru's "Shining Path" group. Like the nearsighted reporter, Vargas-Llosa view of the ideologically motivated rebels of Canudos and elsewhere is that they offer not redemption, but damnation to an earthly life of violence and suffering. All we can do is record the events and to pray that they don't happen again...
Critics counter that students already have the right to pray voluntarily whenever they wish. Organized religious meetings, they note, could pressure students into conforming to practices that violate their consciences and could open a back door to school-sponsored prayer. Some fear the bill could turn classrooms into forums for fringe cults, such as the Moonies, and a variety of political and cultural groups, ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to gay rights organizations. A crush of meetings could strain budgets for maintenance and supervision. "The tragedy is that the President has been able to direct attention away from...
...Pope vs. the Sandinistas "I would wish to invite you to pray for the church of Nicaragua, which in recent days has lived through a sad event. It is especially serious, added to the trials already suffered there." Pope John Paul II's words, coming at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square last Wednesday, were unusually strong, but so was the provocation. Two days earlier, Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government had expelled ten foreign priests, four of them Spaniards, whom It accused of being involved in anti-government activities...
...Church to Roman Catholicism. "I saw something in it I wanted to have," she says. "There is something very soothing about the whole thing. A love of God is easier for me to accept than the fear." She remains a believer, who says, quirkily, "I never laugh when I pray. That's God's turn." Like many Catholics, however, she is troubled by doctrinal issues affecting birth and reproduction. She agrees with the church prohibition of abortion but cannot accept strictures against birth control. "The group I ran with would have six, seven, eight kids and be drowning...
...which obscure forebears set out for the New World generations ago. And so Ronald Reagan's four-day visit to Ireland was carefully planned as a kind of televised wish fulfillment, especially on Sunday in the village of Bally-poreen (pop. 350). There the President was scheduled to pray in the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, look up in the baptismal book the record of Great-Grandfather Michael's baptism on Sept. 3, 1829, and wander over to the Ronald Reagan Lounge at O'Farrell's Pub for a lunch of ham and cabbage...