Word: priesting
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When Vietnam granted rare access to the trial of prominent dissidents, it may not have expected to produce the sight of communist officials slapping their hands over the mouth of a 60-year-old man - a Catholic priest, no less - and wrestling him out of the courtroom. But that is exactly what happened foreign journalists and diplomats saw in the trial of dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly and four other activists...
...Vietnam's highest-profile political case in years, the five defendants were found guilty of "conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic" after a raucous, half-day trial Friday in which the priest loudly denounced the court as "the law of the jungle." At that point he was hushed up and hustled out to follow the proceedings by loudspeaker in an adjoining room where he eventually heard his sentence: Eight years in prison for helping set up and publicize a small, illegal opposition party, known as the Progression Party...
...declined to believe in God but admitted that for some physicists, faith and science are compatible).It appears that studying the mysteries of the universe naturally leads to the consideration of whether there is anything behind it all. Having spent time as both a theoretical physicist and an Anglican priest, John Polkinghorne attempts to straddle the two worlds of science and theology. His goal is not to defend religion or to place it in a hierarchy above science, but rather to show that theology and physics have distinct similarities in the methods they use and their ultimate aims.For Polkinghorne...
Timing is everything. When former Congressman-and distinguished priest and liberal luminary-Robert Drinan died earlier this year, the Washington Post published a special appreciation. It ran together with a tribute to another notable who died just one day later: Barbaro. The horse got top billing. And does anyone remember when Mother Teresa died? The greatest saint of our time died on the frenzied eve of the funeral of the greatest diva of our time, Princess Di. In the popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron...
...priestly ways portrayed by Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in the movie Going My Way are long gone. Like most Catholics, I am disappointed in the conduct of priests who scandalize the church. However, like most Catholics, I go to Mass to worship God and not the parish priest...