Word: priesting
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...where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
Illingworth, also an Episcopalian priest, quietly left Harvard during summer vacation and traveled north to his home state of Maine to take on a deanship of a different sort—interim dean of St. Luke’s Cathedral in Portland, Maine...
...Friday night also brings his sister Carol, a sophomore at Harvard, out from the Quad, and maybe into Bright, where she could join her parents. Tom’s uncle Dave will likely be there too, as his current assignment as a Catholic priest brings him back to Cambridge...
...could live about 10 days. Death will come from dehydration, not starvation. While no one can say what she will feel, a recent survey of nurses caring for dying patients rated this a peaceful and good way to die. Her parents still hope for a miracle. Last Wednesday a priest touched Schiavo with a bit of cloth that had once touched Mother Teresa...
...eyes. His efforts were successful enough to secure a unanimous statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy" if the American Episcopalians on Nov. 2 consecrate Canon Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as Bishop of New Hampshire. Such a move, the primates said, would "tear the fabric of our Communion at its deepest level." But the New Hampshire diocese shows no sign of backing down. And so traditionalists, who dominate the Anglican churches in the Third World, are likely to break Communion with the liberals...