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...Vincent's may be the worst known case of embezzlement to hit U.S. Catholicism, but Skehan and Guinan are joined by a gallery of other recent alleged klepto-clerics. Last month a Virginia priest was indicted for allegedly embezzling $600,000 from two Catholic churches--in part to help support the woman and three children he had been secretly living with. Last year a Connecticut priest was accused of pilfering up to $1.4 million to pay for his Audi cars, luxury-hotel stays, jewelry for his boyfriend and a Fort Lauderdale condo. And last June another priest was sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Priests Pilfer | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Three tough guys stare daggers at one another in the prelude to a triangular gunfight. A pioneer woman carries water to men laying tracks for a railroad. A Jesuit priest contemplates a South American waterfall. G-men pursue gangsters across a bridge. A boy peeks through a projection-booth window to see a movie or through a keyhole to watch a beautiful woman slowly undress before her mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: The Music Man with No Name | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...much for their spectacular aspect as for Bartlett’s high-concept clothing. For example, his Fall 1998 show featured a blonde man wearing a green cape, sitting atop a horse. At one fashion show, Bartlett used all black models. Another runway show featured an (impeccably-suited) voodoo priest fondling a live chicken. In 2002, however, Bartlett says he had a fashion crisis. “When I first began, I was very experimental, and I was into creating very interesting pieces for men,” he said. “But I had gone out of control...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creations by Bartlett ’85 Hit the Runway | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...certainty is all that remains, the characters struggle to reconcile order and truth. Jones leads the cast as Sister Aloysius, a teacher who plows headfirst through level after level of rigid Catholic bureaucracy to protect her students from the sexual advances of Father Flynn (Chris McGarry), a popular priest...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Doubt" Has A Hesitant Debut | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Drinan, 86, liberal Democrat from Massachusetts and the first Roman Catholic priest to become a voting member of Congress; in Washington. A staunch opponent of the Vietnam War, he was elected in 1970 (with the help of campaign aide John Kerry and the slogan "Father Knows Best"). He charmed, and sometimes cowed, colleagues with his clerical clothing--he said he had no other suits--and was the first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, over the U.S.'s secret bombing of Cambodia. He left politics in 1980, after Pope John Paul II ordered him to resign, citing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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