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What spiritual meaning, indeed, could be found in the briefest pontificate in more than 3½ centuries? Perhaps, reasoned some Catholics, John Paul was preaching a final sermon to his beloved flock, a reminder of the fragility of human existence and the unpredictable but inevitable fact of death. "His death reminds us how small and how weak man is, that life and death are mysteries, that we are in God's hand," said Willebrands. "That is why we also have faith...
When he rose to speak to the thousands of students, parents and alumni assembled in the Yard for the Associated Harvard Alumni ceremony, those qualities were each magnified. For Solzhenitsyn did not simply give a speech at Commencement, he delivered a fervent sermon. Like a prophet, he believed every word he said...
...pastoral ladder climbing, first to vicar general of that diocese, then, in 1958, to Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, another local diocese subject to Venice. When two local priests there were accused of piling up heavy debts and overdrawing their checking accounts, Luciani summoned his 400 priests for a stern sermon. The church, he reminded them, was to be identified with the poor Then he paid the debts of his free-spending priests out of diocesan funds...
...know that I have destiny," says Preacher Garner Ted Armstrong. But does he have a following? "Disfellowshiped" from the Worldwide Church of God by his father, Herbert Armstrong, 86, Garner Ted, 48, has organized his own Church of God International. At his first sermon in Tyler, Texas, he was all Christian charity and humility to his 200 listeners: "I don't have a bad attitude toward my father any more at all. I realize that he's doing what he feels he has to do -spank his boy. And I want to take every punishment that I need...
...editorial entitled "Sun Day Sermon" (Crimson, May 1), Dr. David Jhirad, Acting Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), was misquoted as having said that solar energy could provide for the entire energy needs of the United States before the end of the century. The error was mine. In fact, on the basis of a comprehensive two-year study performed by Dr. Jhirad and his colleagues, Dr. Jhirad concludes that aggressive implementation of the solar option (encouraged by federal purchasing programs and tax incentives), combined with efficient fossil-fuel use, could result in solar energy providing one-quarter...