Word: priestly
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...first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John Keating, a young American priest, wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights" to assess failed marriages. Since then American clergy have psychologized enthusiastically. The Archdiocese of Chicago, for instance, will now consider annulling the union of a "person [who did] not intend to care for his/her partner...
...more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades into the rooms the hostages occupied. Gumucio did not remember later how many minutes he waited for the attack to begin, but he said, "To me it was an eternity." Juan Julio Wicht, a Jesuit priest who had stayed on in the residence despite an offer of freedom, got the word that rescuers were coming in but dismissed it as black humor...
...blind: this unexpected circumstance throws a damper on the joy of the family. Each character changes in some way: success-driven yet lonely Ozzie recalls his youth and maliciously derides his own children; Harriet can no longer fix each situation simply by offering snacks to everyone or calling her priest, Father Donald (Rich Amberg '00); and Ricky (Joshua Cohen '97) simply avoids unpleasant situations by leaving the once-happy home...
Once on a trip to Africa, Elizabeth Swados witnessed a ritual ceremony where a priest was "absolutely magnificent and fantastic" in the crowd. Curiously, Swados noticed this very same priest sulking under a tree the next night. She later learned that the village elders decided he could no longer entertain because he was "no longer possessed." Swados has since adopted this rule for her own work: To work with one of her productions "you have to be 'possessed' or you don't get to perform...
...other sexcapades in cars: "They felt like traffic accidents." She loves making love to men with scars; to her, each wound is an orifice, and auto eroticism is an aphrodisiac. It is more--a sacrament--to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), whose obsession with celebrity crashes has made him a priest of the car cult. He seeks immortality in heavy-metal scrapes with death...