Word: chaplain
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...Chaplain and First Sergeant seem, in their own ways, understanding enough. The sergeant private's anguish family" and "motivation" problems. The Chaplain, a Negro, offers to talk with him at any time. Both higher-ups are split between their sympathy for Hickman and the programmed reactions of their military routine. At one point, the chaplain slips into: "All of life is really a lot of ups and downs..." Which somewhat dazes the would-be suicide...
...laicization that would permit him to "continue working in the Catholic context." Early this month, from the Papal Secretary of State, came the news that the decree had been granted. Then, in a private, traditional ceremony in a Maryland church, Maguire's brother Joseph, a U.S. Navy chaplain, married the couple. Writing to friends who had attended their "non-marriage," the newlyweds noted that "we had a wedding without a marriage July 3, and a marriage without a wedding August 10. There can be little doubt that we are finally, definitely married...
Weber is a good character, a laconic man who is, by his lights, both skeptical and ironic. Davis plays him off chiefly against Hannibal Snow, the young prison chaplain, with whom the author is not nearly so successful. Snow is frantic in his efforts to prepare Weber's soul to meet God and increasingly tormented by spiritual doubts of his own. In the end, the condemned man is comforting the minister...
...assassination attempt posed a cruel dilemma for Italian Americans, who regard the league as a voice for their frustrations and have attempted to overlook Colombo's Mafia life. Father Louis Gigante possesses a unique in sight into this moral tug of war: he is both the league chaplain and the younger brother of a man who was accused of trying to assassinate Frank Costello in 1957. Father Gigante was among those keeping vigil outside Roosevelt Hospital. Said he: "The league is definitely a positive thing, but all they talk about in the papers is the crime thing...
...emergence-like grass through the cracks in the side-walk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...