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Kelleher feels that the sub rosa aspect of that approach, however, leaves too many people with uncertain consciences. He suggests that the church should simply "welcome home" those who have suffered failed first marriages to "the central act of Catholic worship, the Eucharist," and to the "protective love of a genuinely Christian community." For U.S. Catholics, whose divorce rate is nearing the national average of one out of four marriages, that kind of compassion could be welcome indeed...
...most part, the University Choir remains an ornament to worship in Memorial Church. Several times each year they sing solo recitals. Last Sunday afternoon, they participated in a choral evensong that gave them a far larger role than the regular Sunday morning service, but within a sacred setting. The occasion was Reformation Day, and the program was built around Bach's Cantata #80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ("A mighty fortress...
Nevertheless, what a person was or thought or did thirty years ago is past and dead, even if that person is physically alive...feeling a deep familial piety for his defunct historical self, he indulges in ancestor worship, tidies up embarrassing disorders of his dead past, reverently conceals his own skeleton in a hidden closet...no writer enjoys total recall, every recollection is suspect...
...religious sect which was born in colonial southern Vietnam in the middle 1920s, and extended its influence deeply into Vietnamese politics. Cao Daism was a bizarre blend of various elements in Eastern and Western religions, with a healthy measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered...
...time that the blame for our domestic problems be placed where it belongs -not on any one man but on the people of this country. Blame the politicians who are willing to sit and do nothing constructive, just point a finger and say shame. Blame the industrial men who worship profit only -responsibility to the consumer and a quality product be hanged-and contrive shortages to further their own ends. Blame the farmers who cry poverty, and the union leaders who use the public to feed their super egos but haven't the true sense of leadership that would...