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Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
...strip of Bolsa Avenue between Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, Calif., was a ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they can applaud Elvis Phuong, who, complete with skintight pants and sneer, does Presley Vietnamese-style...
Every day immigrants from Mexico and Central America seeking a better life flock to Quitman Street, the barrio's main drag. Most don't speak English, and many lack documentation. They are confused, afraid and poor: half the families earn less than $12,800 a year, and 19% are on welfare. More than one-third of the Northside's 13,500 residents are women able to bear children, but until last year, no one had mounted a committed effort to prevent unnecessary infant deaths. Then Joan Mahon appeared...
Much of the credit goes to the three Ps: Peace, Prosperity and Panama. Voters appreciate Bush's affable nature, his no-nonsense wife Barbara and his flock of grandchildren. Add to that low unemployment and inflation, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the dramatic capture of Manuel Noriega and the sense that Bush loves his impossible job and is working hard at it. This flavorful gumbo has a broad appeal. Bush gets good marks even from a majority of blacks and Democrats...
...flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos was circling above the trees, lit up with the yellow light of a late afternoon. I never heard them in the dawn chorus, but their cacaphony announced the moving cloud of wings a full five minutes before they appeared...