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When I was young, I never encountered this prejudice against. Catholics. For me, Catholic politics meant Democrats and the Kennedy clan, hardly conservatives. In fact, the most impressive moment of my childhood was when Father Ken, a parish priest with tangled hair and a long beard that made him look like a hippie, gave a sermon on the 1980 New York City march for peace...
...three women, Chamorro is the epitome of the contemporary queen regent: benign, motherly and devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...from the disintegration of her daughter's marriage. Boo's parents Soot (Randi Wolkenbreit) and Karl (Philip Munger) are not exactly paragons of familial support. And in Marriage, as in other Durang works, the Catholic Church assumes a patriarchal role. Like the other parent figures in the play, the parish priest, Father Donnally (Tom Chick), cannot give them constructive advice...
JUDGMENT (HBO, Oct. 17, 21, 25). A kindly parish priest turns out to be a child molester in this provocative if predictable cable movie written and directed by Tom Topor (The Accused...
Until recently, the church responded to clerical transgressions by sweeping them under the altar. Erring priests were simply shuttled from parish to parish; victims, out of embarrassment or reverence for the priesthood, often conspired in that silence. Now the church is beginning to confront the problem, partly under the pressure of burgeoning lawsuits filed by victims of priestly misconduct. Court judgments against the clergy already run to about $300 million...