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...wondered often how bishops in the Northeast handled the waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries," says Bishop Peter Jugis, 47, who took over the diocese in 2003. "It's exciting." It also transcends demographics: the newcomers are practicing a more conservative Catholicism than their brethren in many other parts of the country...
...fair. Aware of the danger of escalating a sectarian civil war, leaders of the Shiite alliance have identified reaching out to the Sunnis as a top priority after the election. A Sistani aide told an Arab newspaper last weekend that the Grand Ayatollah believed "the representation of our Sunni brethren in a new government would have to be effective regardless of the results of the election." He also mentioned that a new government would have the standing to demand a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq - a key demand of the Sunni rejectionists, most recently expressed by the influential Muslim Scholars Association...
...grant marriage licenses to gay couples in city hall. Thousands lined up day after day for a simple civil rite most Americans--Britney Spears included--tend to take for granted. They knew the licenses would almost certainly be revoked. But they got them anyway. They and their fully legal brethren in Massachusetts provoked a counterinsurgency by the social right. A federal amendment to ban civil marriage for gays was introduced in Congress. In 11 states, constitutional amendments were passed by grass-roots Christian groups to do the same. But again, ultimate success was elusive on both sides. The federal amendment...
...Liberals, who dared to dream before election day, turned grouchy the day after. But they know that the message of ?Fahrenheit 9/11? and its agit-doc brethren didn?t go stale on Nov. 3. With Karl Rove fully validated as the King-maker - he got his man the popular vote this time - ?Bush?s Brain? is more relevant than before. Moore has been planning a documentary on health care, which should be ever more timely as the Administration pushes its privatization angle on Social Security. Of course Moore and his fellow Savonarolas will once again be preaching to the choir...
...puzzling. Last week, the standing-room-only crowd that packed the Centre Rabelais theater in the southern French city of Montpellier went wild as Socialist Party leader François Hollande and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn extolled the merits of the treaty. Mention of party brethren who back the no vote drew disapproving groans. "This is a show of force," explained Montpellier shop owner and Socialist Party member Jean-Claude Arnel. "We're here to demonstrate just how big our commitment to Europe is." Why so much controversy now over the constitution when President Jacques Chirac has said...