Word: sacraments
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...very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend...to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman." BILL FRIST, Senate majority leader, endorsing a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriages...
...semester spent outside Harvard and its dizzying loop of distractions, I wanted dearly to belong again. At first I was afraid it wouldn’t take me back. Upon arriving here and presenting myself at the superintendent’s desk, I was thankful to receive the Harvard sacrament: an ID card with my freshman photo and name freshly embossed on it. Now the coveted status is mine again, and with it access to all that makes a Harvard life perky: dining halls, libraries, Quincy House, Crimson Cash...
...unconvinced that those priests who have made confession with the cardinal, or other priests within court documents, deserve any fewer religious entitlements than do the laity who repent immoral acts that happen to be criminal. Ordinarily, any ordained Catholic would be defrocked for breaking the seal of confession, a sacrament of the church. And Law could not have been expected by any faithful Catholic to turn over to secular authorities seemingly penitent parishioners of any sort without violating church doctrine...
...Koran, marriage is not a sacrament, it’s a social contract,” Asani said...
What a shame. If nuns had had higher status, they might have prevented the cover-up. According to Syracuse history professor Margaret Susan Thompson, who researched the archives of 75 religious orders, "nuns had no standing; even Mother Superior wouldn't call a bishop." Monsignor Thomas Duffy of Blessed Sacrament Church in Washington says the nuns simply wouldn't have known what the priests were up to at the parishes he served in. But he also contends they would have spoken out come what may. "Sister Gonzaga--God rest her soul, I just buried her this week--was very strong...