Word: priestly
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...smugly ignorant letters stating to what Billy Graham could convert Catholics are answered by Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and the endless line of other saints. "Pope and priest" are precisely what Billy is short of-Christ-given authority and Christ-bearing sacraments...
...Connelley Sweeny Patiño, 27, unconscious and pale, breathing heavily. Two hours later, the rich little poor girl was dead-of a heart attack, the doctor said. By her bedside was her mother; her last decision on behalf of the golden girl had been to send for the priest...
Many a tradition-minded Athenian, knowing Gropius only as the high priest of modernism, with its flat roofs, ribbon windows, concrete, steel and glass functionalism, promptly got set to dislike what he suspected was coming. Last week plans for the building were outlined, and the pessimists were pleasantly surprised...
...with wise glances, "she has brought a chaperone. Now what will he do?" For a year Pietro did nothing. Then he approached bluntly and announced: "I have decided I want to marry you." "I am sorry," said Francesca. "It cannot be." Stupefied, the mayor went to his uncle the priest. "I don't understand," he said. "How could any girl refuse?" The old priest inhaled a vast nostrilful of snuff. "Women," he said at last, "don't like to be wooed. They like to be conquered...
Women! Pietro's uncle the priest gave his blessing as the women started out, and when they reached the bridge, nine members of Francesca's class of illiterates were on hand-but not to bid her goodbye. "Stop!" one of them ordered, "or we shoot." Francesca leaped toward the bridge, but one of the men caught her arm and dragged her back. The other women tried to free her, but could not. While three of the attackers stood with leveled guns, two of the bullies dragged the schoolteacher into the wood. Six days later, the carabinieri found...