Word: clericalization
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...very bad man, a reactionary cleric, a towel-headed mullah ("towel-head" for short), a "cruel despot," a new shah...
After Roach pleaded guilty last week, a judge fined him $445 and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. With 28 of those days suspended, and ten hours credited for the night he spent in the Chicago jail, the cleric will be obliged to serve 38 more hours. In addition, the judge ordered Roach to enter an outpatient program for alcohol abuse. "I thank God that no one was hurt," the archbishop said after his sentencing last week. He called upon his | congregation to beware of the dangers of drinking and driving. Said he: "I take my role...
...prevent another crime, it is not an obligation. Religious questions are between me and my God, and not between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that under the current law a grand jury could haul in every cleric in Florida and ask, "What have you heard about child abuse lately and from whom did you hear it?" But Denny Abbott, a Florida crusader against child molestation, insists, "The overriding concern should be for our children, and clergymen should report these crimes...
Surely only an undiscriminating God would have damaged such a priceless monument. He could as easily and more economically have removed the offending cleric by a fall downstairs...
Fortuitously, a shipful of Conquisatores show up, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting (Anthony Calnek), in search of the Island's unspeakably precious jewel, the William Sapphire. They inadvertently bring along an evil pseudo-cleric. Missionary Position (Jon Shapiro), whose dream is to bring the Island and then the world into his mind-control cult. ("It wouldn't take much for a Guyana little Kool-Aid to start a religion here," he muses.) He teams up with the witch, the innumerable romances start, a noted TV personality emerges from the fountain, the Queen falls in love, and so forth...