Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially for gay men, the threat is death. "Sex wasn't meant to be 'safe,' " Jeffrey says. "Or negotiated. Or fatal." But there's no sense moping, as a gay priest helpfully points out: "Terminal gloom -- who does that help? Even Brecht wrote musicals...
...other in Haiti, full of hunger, fear, gunfire and, most of all, uncertainty about the future. In the slums of Port-au-Prince, there were high hopes for "the democrat Clinton" with a small d. Deep in a warren of concrete hovels without running water or sanitation, a voodoo priest sat beneath the corrugated tin roof of his temple. The people of his neighborhood, he said, had supported Clinton despite reprisals from the army that rules the country. "A lot of people were beaten up here because we believed in Clinton, and the Haitian authorities wanted Bush re-elected...
Some scholars bridge the gap between religion and science in the mode of Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Austrian monk who discovered basic laws of heredity. Stanley Jaki of New Jersey's Seton Hall University is both priest and physicist. He believes that science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory...
...Father Edward Colleton, a priest who workedwith VICS, said he actually allocated the alleged$30,000 donation to Campaign Life...
VLADIMIR ZAKHAROV Church Elder In the Church of St. Sergei a seven-year-old boy tilts his head as a priest snips off a lock of his hair and dips it in a cistern of holy water. The boy and six others have just been baptized. Vladimir Zakharov proudly watches the service. Though not a priest, Zakharov, 46, is an elder at St. Sergei's who oversees the Russian Orthodox Church's ! charity mission. Baptisms are now fairly common, but the new parishioners do not come solely for spiritual sustenance. Many are poor, and they look to St. Sergei...