Word: priesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, founded the modern U.S. labyrinth movement after discovering this quiet pleasure during a retreat in New Jersey in 1991. "We have a vast spiritual hunger in the West," she says, "and labyrinths are a tool for centering...
Towle's bombshell provoked outrage from two directions. To some, it was shocking that a Catholic priest would violate his calling by betraying a penitent. (Towle says Fornes' statement wasn't part of a formal religious confession.) To others, the shock was that a man of God kept silent while two innocent men languished behind bars for a crime they didn't commit...
Time was when the confidential professions were reliably confidential. A lawyer kept your crimes and financial mischief to himself; a priest took your sins to the grave. Even nonprofessionals had codes of confidence: secretaries, clerks and anyone with access to Coke's secret formula or Colonel Sanders' 11 herbs and spices kept...
...Boston church's shift--it opposed the bill a week earlier--came amid a messy sexual-abuse scandal. Bernard Cardinal Law recently admitted, as part of a civil lawsuit against the church by abuse victims, that after he was informed that John Geoghan, a priest, had allegedly molested seven boys, he transferred Geoghan to several other Boston parishes. Geoghan, who retired in 1993 and was defrocked five years later, is accused of molesting at least 70 children. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges...
...only with how much money you had. Sure, if you lived in tony Grosse Pointe, you were more likely to listen to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark than, say, Foghat. But even we alternateens with blue-collar parents saw ourselves as separate from our classmates with Camaros, Judas Priest albums and plans to work in the Ford plant after graduation. In my hometown, where driving a foreign car was just shy of flying the hammer and sickle on your lawn, I listened to the Femmes while riding in my best friend Dan's beat-up VW squareback. (Is it just...