Word: pulpiteers
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...devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs. In October the synod's executive board and Pittsburgh's Bishop Kenneth May, applying rarely used provisions of the Lutheran Church in America's national constitution, decided that Roth would have to give up his pulpit...
Some priests have flocks; Father Tim Farley (Jack Lemmon) has fans. The 5:20 Mass is S.R.O. for this Johnny Carson in alb and chasuble, who keeps the customers satisfied with ingratiating patter-dinner and a show for the price of your soul. Off-pulpit, Father Farley is a bit of a sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach...
...what they thought would be a less demanding post. But as soon as Popieluszko arrived at the parish of St. Stanislaw Kostka, he took on the job of chaplain to the huge Huta Warszawa steelworks, winning over hard-drinking mill hands with his friendly, unassuming manner. In the pulpit, Popieluszko became an eloquent defender of Solidarity, and after the military crackdown his monthly "Mass for the fatherland" became a rallying point for the opposition...
...former Stanford basketball star and clarinet player was reluctant for the first seven or eight years to use the pulpit of the Harvard presidency to address the nation. But with the publication of his 1982. "Beyond the Ivory Lower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University," annual reports on the legal and medical professions and other public ruminations on different topics. Bok is widely considered the prime spokesman for higher education in America, challenged perhaps only by Notre Dame's President, the Rev. Theodore Hessberg. "I have the highest possible admiration for Bok," says Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti...
...period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...