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...given up," remembers Percy Humphrey, 77, a trumpet player who has since traveled around the world with a Preservation Hall touring band. "I never did think it could happen in my life, playing to crowds of 30,000 to 40,000 on our tours. But the good Lord answered my prayers...
...There is a real spiritual hunger on the part of people," says Bernardin. "They are not reaching out to me. They are reaching out to the Lord. Perhaps there is a personal dimension, but I am just a symbol. In no way, I want to emphasize this, is this a reaching out to me personally. I have to remind myself of this every...
...uncles. Intent on becoming a doctor, he finished one year as a pre-med student at the University of South Carolina. Then Bernardin surprised his family by deciding to enter the priesthood. Says he: "I don't want to sound dramatic, but it must have been the Lord. I had a very definite feeling that I was being called to the priesthood...
Bearing in mind the mistakes of the past, Bernardin says that he has no intention to "lord it over others." In his daily business Bernardin dresses more like an ordinary parish priest than a prospective prince of the church. He has invited two priests and three nuns to share the cavernous brick mansion he inherited from Cody, and prefers to drive his silver Oldsmobile himself, all in keeping with his notion of a no-frills clergy. Explains Bernardin: "I consider myself a servant first of the Lord, then a servant of others for the sake of the Lord...
...offense involving a 14-year-old girl. Shortly afterward, his wife Rhona discovered spying equipment under a bed and reported it to the police. Eventually, Prime confessed to being both a spy and a sex offender. During the two-hour trial at London's historic Old Bailey, Lord Lane sentenced Prime to an additional three years in prison for molesting three young girls. Said Lane: "Your ruthlessness is demonstrated not only by what you did with this country's secrets but by what you did to those girls. You made the choice and you must suffer...