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...popular moderate candidate, Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, the stem-winding radio preacher of The Lutheran Hour. But these hopes were threatened when it turned out that denomination bylaws require all presidential candidates to swear in advance that they will accept the office if elected. Hoffmann recently announced that such a vow would violate Lutheran theology of "the call" to a vocation. He insists that he must be free to decide after the election. His name may still be put up in July anyway, but Hoffmann told TIME last week: "I'm not a nominee and that...
...Paris in 1534 Ignatius and his friends made their first vows of poverty and chastity (Ignatius was ordained a priest three years later), but it was not until 1540 that Pope Paul III approved the small band as a new religious order. As part of the bargain, they placed themselves at the express call of the Pope. In Ignatius' metaphor, they were to be chivalrous soldiers of Jesus, mobile, versatile, ready to go anywhere and perform any task the Pope assigned. As a recognized order, they added to their earlier vows the traditional vow of obedience to their superiors...
First, Ms. Freedberg referred to a figure of $8.2 million in "grants and endowments" held by Harvard. The figure involves no grants. It is all endowment. Also, Harvard did not "vow" to withdraw this from the BCH. Harvard did indicate that if forced out of the Hospital the support of the income from that endowment would be lost insofar as the BCH was concerned...
Although the trustees expressed hope that there would be continued involvement in patient care by Harvard and Tufts, it is unclear at this time whether Harvard will adhere to its earlier vow to withdraw its $8.2 million in grants and endowments if it were forced to relinquish the responsibility it held...
...Cooper generation was taught to go to church on Sundays, to enter marriage, often virginally, on a till-death-do-us-part vow, to obey its parents and expect obedience from its children. For these familial and marital mores, the middle class has been mocked and undermined for years. Time may well vindicate Jean Kerr's conviction that innocence and responsibility are the best policies, and that the family is the quintessential social unit without which civilization disintegrates in anarchy. T.E. Kalem