Word: talking
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...approved the bishops' condemnation of racial antagonism and discrimination, but the total context of his talk was chilling to liberal theologians. He asserted that the church has a special mission to "guard and transmit intact the deposit of Christian doctrine," thus reaffirming the thought that Christianity is a body of fixed beliefs rather than a faith that ought to be adapted to modern circumstances...
...thoughts. To the Ukrainian-rite Catholics he voiced enough praise of "diversity" within the church to win long applause. To the priests, nuns and seminarians he expressed? an exalted view of the religious life as one of devotion to God and service to humanity. At the end of his talk they stamped, clapped, whistled and sang. Many nuns who had sat stony-faced while John Paul said that women could not be priests joined enthusiastically in the rousing ovation...
...Chicago seminary, in an address to more than 300 U.S. bishops, that he gave the most doctrinaire talk of his tour. His technique was typically deft; he quoted exactly from a pastoral letter that the bishops themselves had composed in 1976, and in effect exclaimed: How right you are! On divorce, he told the bishops: "You faced the question of the indissolubility of marriage, rightly stating, 'The covenant between a man and a woman joined in Christian marriage is as indissoluble and irrevocable as God's love for his people.' " On extramarital sex: "You rightly stated 'sexual intercourse...
...first of Johnson's school bills seeking Government aid for parochial schools was on the Hill, old prejudices flared a final time. Aide Bill Moyers took a call one day in Johnson's absence to hear the protests of a ranking Southern Baptist. The caller wanted to talk to the President himself about how he could have got so tangled up with the Catholics. "He's in the swimming pool with Dr. Graham," said Moyers. "Who?" asked a diminished voice. "The President is in the swimming pool with Dr. Billy Graham," said Moyers. There was a long...
...said he takes the documents he needs each day from double-locked file cabinets inside a strongroom. "We've been warned within an inch of our lives not to talk," he said. "It's an intimidating place...