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...theological questioning of Küng, the aspiration of women to a full role in the church, and now Father Drinan's activities in public office [May 19]. Surely Pope John Paul II, who spoke to millions of Poles of the "Church of Silence" and who knelt in prayer at Auschwitz, cannot be unappreciative of a priest's part in politics. Or are we to believe that the return to his homeland last June was only a sentimental journey...
...never known any other national leader put their arms tenderly around their children's shoulders and sobbed into handkerchiefs. Groups of schoolchildren, reared on his all-embracing national legend, waved small Yugoslav flags with awe in their eyes. At the edge of the crowd, a youth knelt on an open newspaper, clasped his hands and moved his lips in silent prayer. "He was somebody very close, like in my own family," said Nikola Margis, 68, a craftsman with a white mustache, who had waited for ten hours to pay his respects at the lying-in-state. "For 35 years...
...attack hastened the militia's retreat; others, though, turned around and fought. One old man knelt by his shot-filled tricorner hat and fired ineffectually at the British until he was stabbed through the heart. Another, Jonathan Harrington, was mortally wounded but managed to crawl across the common to his doorstep before dying in the arms of his wife...
When he was nine years old, John B. Anderson knelt at an Illinois tent revival and committed his life to Jesus. During 19 years in Congress he has been one of the most articulate Evangelicals in politics. Jimmy Carter's well-publicized faith made "born again" a famous phrase. And Ronald Reagan? In February he told a TV interviewer that he is born again, too, but seemed shaky about the Evangelical concept of personal belief, concluding, "I suppose I would qualify...
...protocol, Ahmed Abdul Wahab, as he led his guests through the opulent marble palace in Riyadh to a thickly carpeted reception hall. Inside, about a hundred supplicants from various Bedouin tribes clustered beneath a huge crystal chandelier, awaiting their turn to approach Crown Prince Fahd. One by one they knelt before him, asking a special favor or voicing a complaint; the portly Prince nodded in sympathy, then told a member of his entourage what must be done. This ancient ritual, known as the majlis, enables even the lowliest Saudi citizen to express his desires or worries to the royal family...