Verbatim."Nothing in liturgy is so obscure that liturgists cannot find points to disagree on." --Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum University, answering o liturgy question for the Zenit news service (Zenit, Nov. 14, 2005) "We can't take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family or a Muslim family." --Bill Grein, vice president of the Toys for Tots Toys For Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which donates toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. The program was founded in 1947 by Major Bill Hendricks. Foundation, explaining why his group at first turned down o donation of 4, 000 talking Jesus dolls (Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Nov. 14, 2006) "We should bear no grudges against people.... We are building a new country. Let's show them that we are human; we are not these terrorists that they said we were before. Let's embrace the spirit of reconciliation." --Zizi Kodwo of the African National Congress Youth League The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. Its foundation in 1944 by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (1914-1947), Ashley Peter Mda, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo marked the rise of a new generation of leadership , on the death of South African apartheid-era leader P. W. Botha (CNN.com, Nov. 1, 2006) "We are against the death penalty ... whether it's Saddam or anybody else." --British Prime Minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair , commenting on the conviction of the deposed Iraqi dictator (CNN.com, Nov. 6, 2006) "It should be just normal that parish churches where there are four or five Masses on Sunday should have one of these Masses sung in Latin." --Cardinal Francis Arinze His Eminence Cardinal Francis Arinze, (born 1 November 1932 in Eziowelle, Nigeria) is an African prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2002 and Cardinal Bishop of , head of the Vatican liturgy office, arguing that Latin needs to be token out of the "ecclesiastical refrigerator" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. , Nov. 12 2006) |
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