Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REV.) MARIO DICICCO, O.F.M...
...REV.) NEAL W. MCDERMOTT...
...reaction among farmers was exemplified in a cartoon by E.A. Harris, which showed a startled rooster rather lamely explaining to a quizzical hen"Nobody told me about Daylight Saving!" Attendance at some churches in New York City was off. Explained the Rev. Frank Walinski of St. Peter's Lutheran Church: "If you want a personal opinion, it's hard as hell to get up in the morning." In Baltimore, most of the prominently placed public clocks were not turned ahead immediately; because their lights had been turned off to conserve energy, the clocks were unreadable in the morning...
Both Woods and the Rev. Juan Cortes, a Jesuit psychology teacher at Georgetown, point out that in traditional Catholic teaching on possession, the evil spirit was considered to be a lesser demon, not the devil himself. Cortes doubts the existence of such lesser demons, seeing them merely as archaic religious interpretations of what are now recognized as mental and psychological disturbances. Though Cortes believes in a personal devil who incites evil, he does not believe in possession. Thus, he says, the movie results in "a victory for the devil, because people will believe he can actually possess them...
...usual Sunday night service in an unprepossessing church in Riverside, Calif. But dozens of worshipers in the Faith Tabernacle Church were struck to the floor, trembling in mystical ecstasy, after a visitation from what they believed was the Holy Spirit. Shouted their pastor, the Rev. Pat Yarbrough: "The Spirit of God is moving like the breeze!" One congregant, interviewed later at his job, said simply: "I got zapped." The most moving testimony was the choked-up avowal of the church organist, a pretty young woman named Judy, who said about Jesus: "It's a pity that such...