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Aside from its more political emphasis, the ousted ministry was also markedly different from the present Student Center's chaplaincy in its relationship with St. Paul's. Griffin said, "I felt that I could provide a different angle--something distinctive from the parish clergy. As a Jesuit I had more freedom than the parish clergy and I became very doubtful of the parish as an institution. It was too closed to the dissident Catholics who were concerned with social issues and who were not receiving support from the institutional Church...
Friends recall being a bit surprised, however, when they saw his house in Plaquemines parish, adjacent to New Orleans. He had told people his father had left him millions and he did have a nice car and lots of spending money, but the house was so . . . modest...
...writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility. One of Lanier's partners was a scuba enthusiast, and fooled Spiro into expanding on the subject, about which Pavlovich knew nothing. The firm contacted Tulane...
...does find, however, that at Harvard the exam atmosphere is "more intense, more panic-stricken," than at his university. At Harvard exams are "too academic." At BU he begins to implore, "they ask existential questions, you know, your personal understanding of God, that you can relate to a parish, or wherever you're going to end up." He grabs his thermos and he is gone...
...Horse. A drama set in a waterfront gin mill, presented by the Parish Players of Vermont at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge St. In Inman Square, through January 25. Performances Thursday through Sunday...