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Illinois' Everett Dirksen knelt in an aisle of the U.S. Senate chamber last week, flung out his arms and pealed: "It's like getting down on your knees and saying 'Please, Mr. Court.'" He got back up on his feet and roared, "I will...
...reasoning is that Catholics "must not just respect but esteem" the religious values of others; he has blossomed as the most convinced and convincing ecumenist in the Catholic Church. With the rector by his side, he has knelt in prayer at Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston, and he claims to have visited 80 Protestant churches. Last month he delivered an address to a Greek Orthodox conference in Denver...
...fury turned to blind panic. "A horrible noise, like the crashing of mountains, went through us," said a 16-year-old student. A few men stood firm, shouting, "Calma, calma." They were swept aside and trampled in the stampede for the exits. A woman knelt to pray with a baby in her arms; both were stomped to death. Recalled Leonardo Cevallos, 37, a fisherman who brought his whole family to the big game: "The people came at us like a wave in a bad sea. My wife and my five children are gone-all of them...
...Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing it to bits. He saw other women following the padre about, armed with scissors to snip off pieces of his cassock. When he discovered that bandages dipped in chicken blood were being sold as having come from Padre Pio's wounds, he declared, "This is superstition...
...difficult office. One feels, of course, a glow of quiet pride in the knowledge of our Chief Executive's devoutness. How onerous it would be to be denied the continuation of this White House tradition. Our thoughts wander back to that historic night in 1898, when William McKinley knelt in his office in reverent communion with the Lord, before coming to the Mutual Decision to launch his courageous Spanish-American War. Johnson's proposal of a Monument is no more nor less than the fitting and logical culmination of Washington's long standing with the Divine...