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...their own way, the bishops tried to meet their problems head on. The loneliness of a priest's life can be transformed into a more positive spiritual "solitude" through stronger emphasis on prayer, Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and others argued. Priests should also be freed from their routine duties for renewal and a chance to vent their frustrations, the bishops believe. A requirement for "ongoing education" will be one of the suggestions the synod will send to the Pope...
...Seminaries should also take more care in selecting the faculty who will instruct and guide new priests, the bishops proposed. And while on-the-job training in parishes became popular in the years after Vatican II, seminaries are now going back to the basics, with heavier emphasis on daily prayer and the study of theology, particularly the writings of the early church fathers...
...only were the assembled Palestinians violently attacking the police force present to protect the Temple Mount, they were at the same time bombarding Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall. From their vantage point atop the Temple Mount, the Palestinians were in a perfect position to attack the unarmed, prayer-shawled assembly down below...
Yesterday, B.U. literally did not have a prayer, as Harvard dominated with an 8-1 victory at the Palmer Dixon Tennis Center...
...devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks and striking transgressors, such as women who show too much skin or shopkeepers who don't close their shutters quickly enough for the five-times-a-day prayer sessions required of all Muslims...