Word: pulpitation
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...campaigns, TV commercials, high school marketing and nominating petitions in dioceses. In this new campaign, the archdiocese will rely on a more intimate approach, appointing a new vocation director, at least 12 full- and part-time priests, and using pastors at regular masses to spread the word from the pulpit during homilies and announcements - or by simply walking up to strong lay members and asking if they have heard the call. "Many of the recently ordained foreign-born priests said that's precisely what led them to consider being priests," says James Accurso, a spokesman for the Chicago archdiocese...
Since then it has been the best of times, and the worst of times. FAS has grown enormously in power after exercising a very public veto over one Harvard president and wielding private influence to elevate one of its own, Drew G. Faust, to the vacated bully pulpit. The Curricular Review is complete: Undergraduate concentration choice has been moved to the sophomore year; students have the option of taking secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month...
...assemble and supervise a team of administrators and deans who will share in her vision. And she must protect academic freedom in the face of political hurricanes while continuing to push for excellence in all fields, in both teaching and research. Externally, she has a responsibility use her bully pulpit and moral authority—both as president of Harvard and as one of the most prominent women in America—to the fullest extent.At the same time, Faust must use a light touch. If Summers’ resignation showed anything, it is that a University cannot be governed...
...parents and students who challenged the prayer were subjected to tremendous harassment. All the people involved were religious. But there were threats of shootings and cross burnings, and the minister of one of the girls who was in the case got up and berated her family from the pulpit. At the same time, I have a very eloquent interview with an engineer at DuPont who fought for the prayer. I've been to Northern Ireland, and it was a little like that: people on both sides who would not back down despite their similarities...
...Televangelist turned political innovator Jerry Falwell changed Washington by bringing politics to the pulpit. He was 73. (See page...