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...Dean Joseph S. Nye said Burke will be missed at KSG when she leaves...
...Appalachia have never seen anything like each other. People know his real name. A local paper discovered he had been arrested, and released, in Ohio for preaching to a crowd that became unruly when the police tried to break it up. The record had him as Carl J. Joseph, 39. Still, people here respect his wish to be addressed as What's Your Name...
Although he claims to have traveled on foot through 13 countries and 47 states since 1991, Joseph says he has never stayed in one area as long as he has here (his driver's license record had him intermittently in Toledo, Ohio, and the Bronx). As many as 2,000 people at a time have come to hear him speak. They have gathered out in the fields to pray through the night. They have stopped him on the street to talk one on one, unburden themselves of problems and ask for his prayers. They have called in to a local...
...Seven phone lines busy all the time! I've done telethons, and I've never seen anything like it," says TV producer Sam Lesante. Joseph and Lesante credit the shows with extending Joseph's mission. "Look, you get on the Sammy Lesante Show once a year, you're lucky--never mind four times in two months. But the demand was there, and it's just been incredible." says Lesante. The Associated Press has since carried the story nationwide...
...When Joseph first arrived in Hazleton, the Rev. Gerard Angelo, pastor of the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart, asked to see him and was persuaded of Joseph's sincerity. "I wanted to make sure he wasn't a nut," says Angelo, whose shrine draws 100,000 pilgrims a year. He says he checked out Joseph's background but is keeping mum to maintain the preacher's mystique. He says, however, that the bishop has given his blessing...