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According to Florida Legal Services, all but 40 of the Haitian children have U.S. sponsors lined up. "We told the State Department months ago that we had foster parents to sponsor these children," said Deacon Chris Baumann, spokesman of the U.S. Catholic Conference. Yet the children's advocates report that even in cases where they have located U.S. relatives, the State Department has refused to grant them entry. Helene Charles, a 36-year-old Haitian living in Fort Lauderdale, says she has been trying for months to obtain a visa for her 14-year-old son Kissene. She left...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has questioned the autonomy of the proposed group, Harvard Christians in Action (HCIA). Unlike many student religious groups on campus, HCIA does not represent a religion affiliated with the United Ministry. BCC Deacon John M. Bringardner has said that the Church will not join United Ministry because it disagrees with its ban on proselytism...
...leisure-time pleasures include a collection of automobiles -- among them a '66 Ferrari and a pair of Mustangs. His latest passion is reading books on physics. Allen remains close with his family, though they're seeing less of him. Allen missed his stepfather's ordination as an Episcopalian deacon last June but managed to make it to the Detroit Grand Prix the next day. "You can imagine, we were very disappointed," says his pink-cheeked, white-haired, mother, known as Marty. She is also a little bothered by the chapter in Allen's book in which he makes...
...South Florida Congressman named Dave Dilbeck, who poses as a pious church deacon but whose spiritual urges send him on pilgrimages to bottomless, table-dancing strip bars. When told that he almost killed a man with a champagne bottle, a contrite Dilbeck asks, "Democrat or Republican...
...proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls, which Rome rules out and American parishes routinely permit. Long gone is the suggestion of serious discussion about women as priests; instead, the ban is restated...