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...execution seemed to provide no immediate finality to a gruesome crime. In New Orleans, Rault's aging, infirm parents attended a small wake and funeral for their son, then retreated in grief behind the doors of their modest bungalow. Observed his aunt, Sister Mary Ruth Rault, a Roman Catholic nun who had been one of the official witnesses at Rault's execution: "This has been five long years of living death...
...significant overtures to Jews. His 1979 journey to Auschwitz was the first by a Pontiff to a concentration camp. His visit last year to a Rome synagogue made him the first known Pope to enter a Jewish house of worship since St. Peter. But last May he beatified a nun, Edith Stein, a convert from Judaism, as a heroic Christian martyr. Jews had protested that Stein was gassed at Auschwitz not for her faith but for her ancestry. John Paul has also defended the actions of the German bishops under the Nazis, despite accusations that some were less than aggressive...
...vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant and is now an agnostic married a Jewish woman, Claire Davidson, as his first wife; as a widower in 1982, he married a former Roman Catholic nun, Mary Ellen Pohl. The celebrated foe of judicial permissiveness indulges enough liberality of spirit to relish martinis before dinner and enjoy a good party...
EXPECTING. Sally Field, 40, pert television actress (Gidget, The Flying Nun) and two-time Oscar-winning movie star (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart), and her husband Movie Producer Alan Greisman, 39: their first child; in December. Field has two children from a previous marriage...
...Teresa, the gentle Nobel Peace laureate, and the money involved was a donation to support her work with children in Calcutta's slums. Indian police soon homed in on the mail-sorting office at Calcutta Airport. There they found a ring systematically filching check- stuffed envelopes addressed to the nun, and sending them to accomplices in Hong Kong and Singapore to be cashed or stashed in bank accounts...