Word: pulpiteering
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Every now and again, Father Spagnolia said something that really took me aback. He said that Cardinal Law, whom he had been criticizing from the pulpit for weeks, was not a Christian. He said that when Law's delegate, Father Charles J. Higgins, confronted him on Feb. 20 with the allegation that 31 years ago he had twice sexually molested a 14-year-old boy, "I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. My reaction was, I think, 'You're s____ing me.'" When we discussed his 19-year hiatus from the active priesthood, a time when...
Themes of interdisciplinary collaboration were a hallmark of Rudenstine’s administration. But success came only in the form of isolated programs. Summers used his institutional pulpit to argue for a change in Harvard’s sometimes balkanized culture...
...real power of PSLM, of course, is that we know it will go to any ends to accomplish its goals, and that although it attributes a bully pulpit to Harvard, it is actually the one who received the bulk of favorable media coverage last year. It has seized the moral high ground as assuredly as it seized Mass. Hall and disrupted the lives of Harvard workers (let’s not forget that the administration secretaries receive a paycheck from Harvard) and students alike...
...rights and protections guaranteed by the tribunal to all defendants. But at the same time, the tribunal must curb Milosevic’s attempts to undermine its authority by hijacking the proceedings. Acting as his own attorney, Milosevic has seized the opportunity to transform the courtroom into a political pulpit from which to assail the foreign policy of the U.S. and the West. He continues to refer to the chief judge Richard May as “Mr. May” rather than “Your Honor.” The respectability of the court demands that Milosevic...
...president of Harvard has a tremendously powerful bully pulpit, and the symbolic power of his opinion is incalculable, so it’s important that he is identified with this policy [of diversity],” Gates says...