Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woburn, Mass., where they will spend the weekend without looking at a clock, phoning the baby sitter back home, watching TV, or even stepping outside the motel. Under the guidance of three couples who have gone to similar weekend sessions and with the help of a Roman Catholic priest, the 60 men and women will spend 44 hours quizzing themselves and each other about their relationships. Most of them are there because they want their marriages to be better or because friends who have undergone Marriage Encounter urged them to attend...
...marriage counselor instead. Unlike those who attend secular encounter groups, participants do not discuss their own problems in group sessions, but listen to the leaders as they relate theirs. Another difference is the impact of Catholic belief in marriage as a sacramental commitment. The presence of the priest reminds couples of the dignity with which their marriage began. By being available all night to talk or hear confessions, the priest also functions as a safety valve for the emotions...
Queenly Beehive. At 8:37 a.m., the propitious moment selected by court astrologers more than a year earlier, the royal priest placed the mammoth jewel-encrusted crown on the King's head and a diamond tiara atop Queen Aishwarya's beehive hairdo. Then came salutes from the King's loyal subjects, starting with three-year-old Prince Deependra decked out in a miniature military uniform. For the afternoon parade-music was provided by regimental bands, including one of Nepalese bagpipers-the royal couple rode on the King's tusker elephant, Prem Prasad, while the other...
...Priest and Peasant. He is not indulgent. The book remorselessly records a people drowning in paradox and blarney. Smothering religious piety coexists with savage sectarian hatreds. The calamitous failure of subsistence farming in the 19th century has ensured the preservation of exactly the same kind of subsistence farming in the present. Blessed with a shore line that attracts international trawlers, Ireland has never launched a fishing industry. "Socialism," O'Hanlon writes, "is a nasty word in Ireland, yet it is difficult to think of a non-socialist economic structure where the government's presence is so pervasive...
...affront to rationality. O'Hanlon knows this. What is more, he does not mind giving the things he deplores their due. In an exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun ties, has threatened that historic union...