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...seems inexplicable: a funeral home director and an employee surprised and killed in the middle of a workday by a gunman who disappeared without taking money or valuables. This week Hudson's shock deepened further when a judge ruled that the murders were committed by a local Roman Catholic priest who served the town and spoke at the funeral of one of the dead...
...thousand. And of those hundred souls, no more than a handful were under the age of 30; I was among the two or three youngest in attendance. White hair, canes, and motorized scooters were the norm for these parishioners. There were, of course, no altar boys, and the priest went about his business morosely, as if the mass were just a chore to be gotten through...
...arms amounted to an unwarranted surrender, the IRA's reversal signals the extent to which Irish republicans have turned to politics as the path to pursuing their goal of a united Ireland. ?We are closing the curtain on 700 years of Irish history,? said Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest who had been invited, alongside a Protestant cleric, to witness the decommissioning with de Chastelain...
...trials finally ended when a Catholic priest was implicated as the brains behind the fires. Justice Horsmanden could crow, “the Old proverb has herein … been verified That there is Scarce a plot but a priest is at the Bottom of it.” Burton suddenly “remembered” the presence of a priest at Hughson’s, and other witnesses were mustered who agreed. The priest was hanged. When Burton started remembering that “People in Ruffles”–influential men who were held...
...clear how many people "revered John Paul's austere message as much as the man himself." The quote from Karl Cardinal Lehmann of Germany, who said, "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets," amazed me. I have been a priest for more than 20 years and have worked with youths in the U.S. as well as in Spain. If there is one single issue that made young people crazy about Pope John Paul II during the past quarter-century, it was precisely his stand against the birth-control pill. Flat...