Word: preaches
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...deacon is neither a priest nor a layman. He may not celebrate Mass or hear confessions, but he may officiate at baptisms, marriages and funerals, as well as preach. What is more, he can be a married man, provided he has married before becoming a deacon. Unmarried deacons must, like priests, take a vow of celibacy; all deacons make a promise of obedience to their bishops...
Others are already having second thoughts. Seton Hall Professor George Devine warned in a recent issue of Commonweal that a resurgence of the diaconate could create "awful tensions between 'married clergy' and 'celibate clergy' who will preach, officiate, baptize and lead, with many Catholics making their choice between the two for their 'real' clerical leadership." Devine's expectation of tensions is reasonable enough, but it would be sorry evidence of a failure of Roman Catholic nerve should the diaconate experiment be ruined by professional rivalries before it gets a fair trial...
...agree with everything he writes, but in this particular case the guy's really get something." Mr. Hammarskjold, Mr. Eisenhower. Mr. Dulles, and Mr. Yovicsin receive their salaries in the same kind of coin. We all criticize them (from the safe purlieus of the Hayes-Bick) and preach of what we would de in their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight. But at least they have done their very best. By the way, just...
...just a doomsaying, fundamentalist black preacher, a Baptist minister's son from Ridgeland, S.C., trying to make good in the world of black storefront religion in Boston and New York. But in 1965, he adopted the style that was to set him apart. Instead of preaching humility and meekness, he began to preach a pride bordering on arrogance. "Say it after me," Ike tells his listeners. "All that God is, I am." He also stopped talking about hell. "I discovered after analyzing the whole thing that people are already in hell. They want some practical ways of getting...
...George McGovern, there was the constant cry for self-sacrifice, to reach out beyond oneself to help and teach and preach. Personal striving was part of it, but people should be uplifters, missionaries, and should share with the poor, comfort the bereaved...