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Speaking from the pulpit, Father John McAlpine warned the parishioners of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland that many New Zealanders worshiped "a false idol, a leather ball." The priest was referring to the national passion for rugby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zealand: Not for Kicks | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Bailey Smith himself lends partial credence to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that he so vigorously champions. The poisonous remarks emanating from his pulpit are almost enough to persuade a skeptical reader of Genesis that talking snakes do exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...that the Soviet Union is "the greatest violator of human rights and the greatest disturber of world peace." To that, Cranston shouted, "The symbolic and substantive duties of the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights are too important to allow the position to be warped into becoming simply a bully pulpit for Red baiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Man for the Rights Job? | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

Glum at the outcome, church leaders vowed to continue their right-to-life fight from the pulpit. Canon law holds that abortion is a grave sin and that all those involved in it-doctors, nurses, as well as patients-incur automatic excommunication. Anastasio Alberto Cardinal Ballestrero, president of the Italian Bishops Conference, noted that the church must "never renounce its mission of evangelization and education of the human conscience.'" Said Vittoria Quarenghi, a Christian Democratic member of parliament and a leader in the antiabortion drive: "We have not lost the war, only a battle." -By George Russell. Reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Not Yet Hale, but Hearty | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...edge of the minister's solemn dark surplice as he sweeps up into the pulpit and the choir and organ thunder the last amen can be seen the orange and black seal of the university, and below it Princeton's motto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 Per Cent on Prospect St. | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

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