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...bishops about these matters. We are too deferential or embarrassed. After Mass on Sundays, I can recall having animated conversations with fellow parishioners about these issues, but then, when we leave the place and shake hands with the pastor, we find it hard to say anything but "God bless you, Father." But as lay people, we can increase lay involvement in church affairs. We can tell our priests and our fellow parishioners what we find hard to believe, what we need more of--liturgically, pastorally, emotionally. The clerical closet must also end. If there's nothing wrong with being...
...pray to God...to continue to bless the United States of America,” he said...
...laugh. In the initially slapstick, then tragic Iranian film Songs of My Mother's Homeland, Kurds pour across the Iran border from Iraq. It's chaos for all concerned - except a peddler whose business is booming. "They bring disease but they also bring money," he says. "God bless Saddam!" The Tajikistan Angel on the Right Shoulder opens on a deserted highway; a man stands there with a sheep. He flags down a taxi; he and his sheep get in. This man, a Muslim, complains to the driver that "the Russians think anyone with dark skin is a bandit." Turns...
...small American flags, descended on the site in three tour buses. The Rev. Duane Slade paid homage to the passengers who went down fighting: "We must recognize those who died to save our country from even greater loss," he intoned, before leading the crowd in a rendition of God Bless America...
Strong characterizations bless the rest of the production, which contains an abundance of memorable moments...