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...their parents and in-laws is that they've become parents themselves. Their nuptials don't merely unite two souls but three or four or more. And that's a challenge. A solution is the "family medallion," a piece of jewelry devised 12 years ago by Roger Coleman, a chaplain in Kansas City, Mo. The medallions, which cost up to $125, have three interlocking circles meant to symbolize the new family's love. They're often presented along with the wedding bands as part of the formal ceremony...
There has never been a Catholic chaplain. And the whole process offended O'Brien. He told the New York Times, "I...pray that the 1960 presidential election did do away with the idea of Catholics as not being fully American," but he thought that "if I were not a Catholic priest, I would be the House Chaplain." He was perturbed by Republican members' questions to him regarding, among other things, St. Paul's first letter to the disciple Timothy (which can be read to suggest that clerics should have children, a tricky point for celibate Catholics) and by a query...
...Brien is the one causing the feud on Capitol Hill. In November, House Speaker Dennis Hastert received a list of three finalists for the position of chaplain, winnowed from a group of some 50 candidates by a bipartisan committee. Hastert and majority leader Dick Armey outvoted minority leader Richard Gephardt to select the Rev. Charles Wright, a Presbyterian affiliated with the House's influential National Prayer Breakfast. In so doing they passed over the nominating committee's favorite, Father O'Brien, a Catholic priest...
That's not a distinction that will be of much help to George W. Bush. The candidate may eventually survive his Bob Jones dilemma, but the passions aroused by B.J.U.'s acrid exclusivism, which are echoed too in a grim little feud over the next chaplain of the House of Representatives, raise troubling questions about how close beneath the surface some old intolerances...
...grown to love music. "One of the things that made me want to learn how to play guitar was watching Buck Owens and Roy Clark and Minnie Pearl on Hee Haw when I was 8 years old," she says, smiling. "The guitars they played were beautiful." At Wooster a chaplain, taking note of her beat-up guitar, took up a collection among the faculty and raised money...