Word: priestes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nine sermons bring fame and misfortune to a Soviet priest...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Jacqueline Alline Means, 41, ebullient practical nurse and prison chaplain who gained fame by becoming the first officially ordained woman priest of the Episcopal Church on Jan. 1, 1977; from Delton Means, 48, truck driver; after 25 years of marriage, four children; in Indianapolis...
...lawyer aides, at interpreting the regulations promulgated by bureaucrat-lawyers, at helping influence the decisions made by politician-lawyers. The swashbuckling entrepreneur may not be a vanished species, but he is an endangered one; and in a complex, technological society he may not get very far without a secular priest, his lawyer, to minister to him. "I can't believe the change," says Atlanta Attorney Sidney O. Smith, recently retired from the federal bench. "Today a businessman cannot function without an attorney...
Suddenly an old woman says, "He's here," and in strides a thin, bearded priest wearing the black beret and the worn, ill-fitting country cleric's suit that are his trademarks. The priest laughs and shakes hands with everyone. After he celebrates Mass, with a loaf of bread fetched hurriedly from the kitchen, there is a steak-and-rice lunch for 200. Wealthy bankers are squeezed in at the tables next to ex-convicts and recovered alcoholics...
...priest is the Rev. Henri de Grouès, 65, known universally as Abbé Pierre. The only visible indication that he is no ordinary priest is a thin red ribbon of the Legion of Honor stitched on his jacket. But he is the man who, as a former law professor at the Orléans lunch put it, "almost singlehanded mobilized the entire government and people of France to do something for the poor...