Word: priesting
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...clear how many people "revered John Paul's austere message as much as the man himself." The quote from Karl Cardinal Lehmann of Germany, who said, "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets," amazed me. I have been a priest for more than 20 years and have worked with youths in the U.S. as well as in Spain. If there is one single issue that made young people crazy about Pope John Paul II during the past quarter-century, it was precisely his stand against the birth-control pill. Flat...
...consider myself a fairly devout Catholic, yet I cannot help reacting critically to the extreme religious conservatives trying to push intelligent design as science. Every priest and religion teacher I have ever spoken to has vigorously confirmed that according to Christian beliefs, evolution and intelligent design are wholly compatible. Even my school--a Catholic one--teaches evolution in all its science courses. I generally take a conservative view of politics and social issues, but that movement clearly goes...
...some reference to the German Pope's own experience? After all, the teenage Joseph Ratzinger was drafted into the Hitler Youth in his native Bavaria, against his will and the wishes of his own anti-Nazi policeman father. Or why not mention what he, as a young German priest, thought when the full extent of Hitler's crimes came to light? Still, my colleague would reserve final judgment until the noon ceremony in the synagogue...
...demands that U.S. troops come home now, and she insists on telling that to Bush personally. She speaks without caveat. "I'm not afraid of anything since my son was killed," she says. But she has never been one to move quietly through life. Father Michael McFadden, a priest she once worked for, calls her "very defiant, very stubborn, very strong willed" when dealing with authority. When a soldier from the local base comes by to argue with her, she asks him to go for a walk. She puts her arm around him. Soon they are hugging. Her friends call...
...been awarded the Victoria Cross for "the highest degree of bravery." By then he was in a Melbourne hospital, slowly recovering from terrible injuries and malaria. Just three weeks after his actions at Wewak with the 2/4th Battalion, Kenna was shot in the face and recalls hearing a priest at the field hospital being told he'd probably die. "I thought, Pigs," he says. Even as the last rites were administered, he remembers telling himself through the pain, "This is not going to happen." He would be given the last rites twice more before his nine-month convalescence was over...