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...India itself. What's more, he enlisted four million Indians, a generation weaned on nanny-state socialism, in an adventure in can-do capitalism, convincing them to load up on Reliance stock. His messianic annual shareholders' meetings were held in a Bombay football stadium, and Ambani became high priest of an "equity cult" that finally drew the enormous savings of India's middle classes into productive?albeit, risky?investment...
...with the plan was an Anglican priest turned traveling evangelical preacher named John Nelson Darby, who arrived in the U.S. in 1862 for the first of seven visits, bearing a radical new eschatology. Darby and minister Cyrus Scofield, who would expand the evangelist's ideas in the vastly influential Scofield Reference Bible, divided God's relationship with man into seven ages (the current sixth began with the death of Christ). Their vision grimly upended the previous wisdom. Far from getting ever better, things on earth would progressively worsen, until the Antichrist, also known as the Beast, arose. A seven-year...
...anxious today? If you're a Catholic mom and your son is an altar boy, what do you really know about the priest your son is assisting? If you're someone who has to cross the Golden Gate Bridge daily, what's your bigger worry? A toll hike or that slow-flying plane overhead? Anxiety is everywhere. TRISH HOOPER Portola Valley, Calif...
Finally, the daughter used a tested tactic in such parent-child standoffs: bring in a trusted third party--a sibling, friend, doctor, lawyer or priest--to speak with the balky parent. In this case the daughter asked the facility's doctor to help. He told the sick woman that the facility had to send someone every day to supervise her medication; otherwise it would feel obliged to move her to its assisted-living section. "It was put to her as a choice," her daughter explains. "Finally she agreed...
Joseph Sullivan read with some apprehension the language on clerical child abuse that his brother bishops passed by a 239-to-13 vote last Friday in Dallas. It looks as if "we've just hung the priests out to dry," said the Brooklyn auxiliary bishop. Despite some complaints from victims, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops document is laudably tough on priests who abuse: any molester, past or future, will be forbidden to wear a collar, celebrate a public Mass or publicly call himself a priest. But the superiors who enabled the behavior got off easy. The document's defenders...