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Rev. Thomas Vincent (Justin Levitt) invokes the power of God to soothe his troubled parishoners. As he begs for God's mercy, he becomes irate, realizes the pathetic and hopeless predicament of his state. He yells his sermons to little effect, except to grate on the audience's nerves.

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Living on the Edge | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

As his fortunes prospered, Asahara seems to have grown more reclusive and obsessed with danger. The religion, nominally Buddhist but really a hodgepodge of ascetic disciplines and New Age occultism, focused on supposed threats from the U.S., which he portrayed as a creature of Freemasons and Jews bent on destroying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOKO ASAHARA: THE MAKING OF A MESSIAH | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

The man they call God's machine gun, BILLY GRAHAM, beat all his own records last week when he preached to 8 million people via satellite. But in two weeks that record will be broken, as TV and videotape deliver his sermons to an estimated 1 billion-nearly a fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1995 | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Every morning, before his private and general audiences, John Paul devotes an hour or so to writing or -- increasingly, as age and injuries have taken their toll -- to dictation. When he can, he composes quickly, in Polish, with a neat, flowing hand, using a black felt-tipped pen. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Lives of the Pope | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Liberal parishioners counter that they don't want to petrify in their pews listening to stodgy sermons, which is why the "gym Mass" attracts about 80 mostly young worshippers a week. Keeping both factions happy is the delicate challenge that confronts Father William Kenneally and thousands of other priests like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tale of One Parish | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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