Word: seminarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before the conclave began, Joseph Malula, the stocky black Cardinal from Zaire, sat dejectedly on a wooden chair in a bare seminarian's room and scornfully waved his hand at the Vatican vista outside the window. "All that?all that imperial paraphernalia. All that isolation of the Pope. All that medieval remoteness and inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla...
Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, an ex-Jesuit seminarian, after weeks of personal agonizing, the California bill implicitly recognizes the validity of "living wills." Long a subject of debate, these are documents in which a patient directs doctors to "pull the plug," in effect, if life-sustaining procedures serve no other purpose than to postpone the moment of death. Under the California legislation, such directives can now be drafted by any adult, must be witnessed by two people who are neither related to the patient nor involved in his medical treatment, and must be renewed every five years...
...office of children and youth. Says he: "Locking up most juveniles is nonsense, unless you intend to keep them in jail until they're 60. The kid locked up is more likely to be trouble once he's freed." Jerry Miller, 45, a pudgy, rumpled ex-Maryknoll seminarian, has acted on that philosophy through seven tumultuous years as a juvenile administrator dedicated to keeping kids out of primitive lockups...
...taken for granted; he keeps on coming. Brown showed in Maryland that he can have wide appeal. He won Scoop Jackson's lunch-bucket crowd, Mo Udall's suburban Volvo votaries, and cut deeply into Carter's ghetto constituency; Catholics also flocked to the former Jesuit seminarian...
...prairies last week, Ronald Reagan missed few opportunities to reveal his indulgence in prayer and Bible reading. About the same time, California Governor Jerry Brown, the former Jesuit seminarian, was walking among the fishermen of Maryland's Eastern Shore, testing his presidential potential with scriptural overtones ("He who enters last shall be first...