Word: succor
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...said that every problem carries with it the seeds of its solution, and so it is with rentapriest.com, a free service that matches Catholics looking for spiritual succor the Church can't provide with former Catholic clerics who have left the Church but can still perform its ceremonies. It all begins with a shortage of priests. Throughout the United States, the Catholic Church is facing an epic paucity of clergy; currently, pulpits in more than 5,300 parishes stand empty, and declining numbers of new priests indicate the situation may get worse. Meanwhile, according to recent figures, more than...
...Putin is not alone in thinking the Americans have given Albanian terrorists too much succor. But across the international community there was general agreement on the best holding pattern: keep arms and men from Kosovo out of Macedonia, back the Macedonian government in its fight against the insurgents, and hope the government wins...
...brutal truth is that the Oscar is a glittering prize that supplies succor and nourishment all the way to Monday morning. And then it's back to "What have you done lately?" Of course the tag is with you forever but no one in this short-attention-span town remembers your résumé. They remember that you gave great "headers." "Headers" are the snappy soundbites by which you cement your relationships (I use the word loosely) in a crowded party...
...Sixth Sense or the spiritual-supernatural drama Touched by an Angel, but the departed are no longer taking death lying down. And the spirits of TV present are no longer mere bogeymen or punch lines. They're, well, spiritual spirits: kindly characters, cast in emotional plots, who succor more than scare...
...Eastern power. Having used Soviet patronage to build a military capability second only to Israel's, he smartly fell in line with the U.S.-led alliance against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Rather than engage his enemies directly, Assad preferred to operate more subtly by giving space and succor to their enemies: For decades the principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space and support he gave to Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon; while Syria's conflict with Turkey over water resources led him to allow the Kurdish guerrillas of Abdullah Ocalan...