Word: clericalization
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...concupiscence than a middle-class Manhattan playgoer might be. But because the plague years have forced Jeffrey to retreat from sex, or even from expressions of love, he is desperate for wisdom from any source. And -- surprise! -- Father Dan has some for him. "Of course life sucks," the cleric says. "It always will. So how dare you not make the most of it? . . . There's only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy! Of a corsage and a kiss...
Radicals of Egypt's Islamic Group would like to do to Mubarak what their fanatic brothers did to the Shah of Iran: topple him and install a purely Islamic government. They even have their own Ayatullah equivalent: Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who calls passionately for Mubarak's overthrow from mosques in the U.S., including the one in New Jersey where some of the suspects in the bombing of the World Trade Center worshipped...
Coincidentally, 49 Muslim militants who have been charged with attacks on foreign tourists -- prime targets of late -- went on trial in Cairo. Some proclaimed allegiance to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the antigovernment cleric self-exiled in the U.S. Ironically, Sheik Omar's sudden notoriety as a result of the World Trade Center bombing in New York City may have helped provide President Hosni Mubarak with an excuse to order last week's bloody crackdown...
...have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though it is still not certain if he was referring to Al-Salam Mosque in Jersey City, where Salameh worshipped on occasion and Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Egyptian cleric, often preaches...
...PUBLICLY FOR YOUR FORGIVEness, as I have of my God." So pleaded well-respected Archbishop Robert Fortune Sanchez, 58, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the latest Catholic cleric enmeshed in a sex scandal. Sanchez's own statement offered no specifics. But local media reported that five unnamed women say they were sexually involved with him, in some cases as teenagers. One of the five, who claims she received a quiet cash settlement from the church in 1991, said all the women had been above the age of legal consent. Even if no crimes were committed, however, Sanchez apparently violated...