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...Priests are inarguably in short supply now--by some estimates there are 2,000 parishes (out of a U.S. total of 19,723) without a resident priest--and the dearth, barring a miracle, will get worse. The number of U.S. Catholics has grown 15% over the past 10 years and stands at just over 60 million. Contributing to this number is the massive immigration of predominantly Catholic Hispanics. Today roughly one-third of the American Catholic population is Hispanic, and that portion will continue to grow. Some Los Angeles parishes in or near Hispanic sections must now schedule...
Fewer and fewer men, says Richard Schoenherr, a former priest, now married and a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Last year he coauthored a book called Full Pews and Empty Altars. By his projections, the number of active diocesan priests in the U.S., which stood at 35,000 in 1966, will have dropped 40%, to 21,000, 10 years from now. Schoenherr blames the shortage on mandatory celibacy, a long-standing discipline within church law that John Paul has refused to reconsider. After surveying male Catholic students in 1985, Dean Hoge, a sociology professor...
...high-end, abstract-thinking machines, keen on contemporary social issues but able to make his interests drive book and ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard...
...spending bowlers. He's a man with a mission. "It's going to take me a lot of years, maybe more than I have,'' he says. "But I think I can change the image of bowling a hell of a lot.'' And maybe in the process, as a local priest prayed at the stadium's opening ceremonies, make "this Big gest Little City become the bowling capital of the nation and the world.'' An auspicious sign: the invocation was delivered by Father Robert Bowling...
...especially true of Bradley, who reportedly was having trouble raising money even for a Senate bid and whose moves last week had a distinctly extemporaneous feel to them. Nor would his personal style or inclination toward scholarly disquisitions on Third World debt lend themselves to his becoming the high priest of a political movement a la Perot. "He's a man who disdains sound bites. He resists making complex things simple," says Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University...