Word: priestly
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...idea was supplied by the Rev. Henry W. Berkemeier, pastor of the township's St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Most of the residents had insurance or could get loans to cover the cost of building materials, the priest reasoned, but would the citizens of Flint volunteer a weekend of their labor to do the rebuilding? The people of Flint responded with a spirit that seemed to match the force of the tornado...
...green; Ganesh, the God of Success, is a pink elephant dancing on a jet black mouse with ruby eyes; sphinxlike maidens are sapphire blue and brick red. When Roy wants to, he can also turn out quick line drawings that catch precisely the pinched, ascetic face of a Hindu priest or the sweeping curves of a nude girl combing her hair...
...prison chaplain that Carlo had been framed. By doing this, one of the three had got a lighter sentence. "Why haven't you said so before?" asked the chaplain. "I was afraid I would be shot," the man said. Under the seal of the confessional, the priest could not repeat the information, but when the man died the priest wrote to Rome about it. Six months later an official from the public prosecutor's called on the priest, who swore to the truth of the confession. That was in 1937, but the wheels of Fascist justice ground slowly...
...daughter of U.S. Ambassador to France Clarence Douglas Dillon; and James Brady Moseley, 22, Harvard junior and son of a Manhattan broker; in Paris. After civil and religious ceremonies, some 600 guests attended a Mass celebrated in the Madeleine by the Rev. Pierre Couturier, known as "the Picasso Priest," for his patronage of modern French religious...
...them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own generosity and momentary passion, and is willing to pay. Even Polo, the unfrocked priest, is seen as a man whose 'whole nature is out of tune with his mistaken calling, a personality so split that the sharp edges are bound to stab anyone brought too close. As for Agustin, he can be seen in any land in any time, sure that...