Word: parishes
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Bill Cain is probably the only TV writer in Los Angeles who lives in a Jesuit parish and has taken vows of chastity and poverty. Cain, a 49-year-old Roman Catholic priest, is the co-creator and spirit behind Nothing Sacred, ABC's controversial new series about an iconoclastic, jeans-clad urban priest. Until now, Cain has written the show under the pseudonym PAUL LELAND, but a campaign against the show mounted by conservative Catholics prompted the priest to come forward. Cain argues that the show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest...
...title track, with its punky-paced, unrestrained musical journey in Hanley's car, again highlights Polce and emphasizes the talented band members--Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein on guitar and Scott Riebling on bass--and guest organist Jed Parish. With an attractive female lead, the men sometimes get pushed to the background, but they are essential in completing the perfect pop rock sound of Letters To Cleo, especially on a song like "GO!". With Hanley's ecstatic voice, the band's instruments wailing with heed to precise dynamics and a circuslike organ bopping along to the automobile antics, the song...
...along with what's going on in Rome." But other Catholics defend the show. In his glowing review in the Catholic magazine America, Jesuit TV columnist James Martin writes, "If you think that any of these story lines are beyond the pale, just recall one of your parish council's agendas...
...CUNNINGHAM, 67, fiery priest who sparked hope in the bleak aftermath of Detroit's 1967 race riots by founding a hugely successful organization to feed and train the urban poor; of complications related to cancer; in Detroit. The once shaggy-haired cleric led Focus: HOPE while zipping about his parish on a Harley-Davidson...
...Christ Church in Cambridge, a guild of parish bell-ringers will ring the bells, according to Richard Whittington, an administrator at the church...