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...first Haitian to become a Roman Catholic priest in the U.S., Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, led the Miami-based Haitian Refugee Center in the 1970s to promote the rights of the country's immigrants. His efforts enabled Haitians to apply for political asylum, an option that had often been closed to them...
...groom’s disparate cultural backgrounds. Because Lopez’s family is Catholic and primarily Spanish-speaking and DeCoste-Lopez’s family is Protestant and English-speaking, the wedding alternated between Spanish and English with the aid of both a local Spanish-speaking priest and DeCoste-Lopez’s pastor. “People seemed to like it,” she said with a laugh. “At least that’s what they told us.” Lopez, a chemical and physical biology concentrator from San Jose, California, and DeCoste...
...Alberto Cutié made an attractive poster boy for the Roman Catholic Church: he's young, telegenic and the host of a popular Miami radio show. But since photos surfaced on May 5 showing the priest dubbed Padre Oprah frolicking with an attractive young woman, he's become a reluctant part of the centuries-old debate over clerical celibacy...
...Cannes Film Festival was in large part the Cannes Movie Festival. At a hallowed venue where minimalist art films usually dominate, this year sensation often ran rampant. Blood spurted from necks, noses, guts and, in one memorable gross-out moment, a penis. Extreme characters spanned the globe: a vampire-priest in Seoul, a French crime lord in Hong Kong and an American drug-dealer in Tokyo. Sam Raimi brought a horror movie about a gypsy curse, and Quentin Tarantino enlisted in a fantasy World War II. Gay lovers disported in China, and Ang Lee found psychedelic bliss in Woodstock...
...years. It was only after the first wave of scandals broke in the '90s that he felt able to tell his story. "Years ago, if I had mentioned to anyone here what had happened, no one would have believed me," he says. "Everyone here thought that whatever a priest or a brother said was the gospel truth. It's only since all of this blew up that people started saying to me, 'Did that really happen in the schools?' Now I can turn round...