Word: vow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McNeill admits he has a "homosexual orientation" that he became aware of only after ordination, but he is committed to honoring his priestly vow of chastity. He is currently training to become a psychotherapist and plans to work primarily with homosexuals, while remaining a priest. He hopes that his book, along with organizations like the Roman Catholic Dignity, which he helped found, will at least provoke discussion and at best create new attitudes. "Once the church is aware of the destructive impact of its policies on hundreds of thousands of lives," he says, "it will have to change...
...hotel suite. "You've done a tremendous job. I just wish I had some of your talents and your tremendous organization." The two retired for a private 30-minute meeting at which they discussed the vice presidential candidates. Reagan had been deadly serious all along in his repeated vow that he would not accept the post if offered...
...every Sunday afternoon, but said the pressure of reading period may force them to wait till next fall to take further action. Certainly, they aren't releasing their plans--the demonstration last Sunday was announced by anonymous leaflets spread through the University dining halls that morning. But the organizers vow they won't sit back and leave the garden to the Fly Club, no matter what the University decides to do with the land...
...support at first, but gradually lost it as his stands on crucial issues alienated one group after another. He would, in Don Quixote fashion, stand against reform long after almost everyone else had given up and prepared for the inevitable. On one occasion, Needham took a George Wallace-like vow to meet the SEC "on the courthouse steps" to block the abolition of fixed commissions-then he failed to carry out his challenge...
That lesson is not lost on Spain's King Juan Carlos, as he attempts to market the monarchy in a riven land. When he was named Francisco Franco's successor-to-be in 1969, the young prince spoke a vow worthy of Don Quixote: "My pulse will not tremble when it comes to do what is necessary for the future of Spain." True to his word, in the five months since the generalissimo's death, the novice King, a direct descendant of France's House of Bourbon, has performed with courage and dignity...