Word: priesting
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...thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during a siege of whooping cough...
...latest collection, Tobias Wolff tells ten of them, superbly. Tales of a priest, a real estate broker, a shoplifter, Viet Nam veterans, California coke heads, and even a young writer whose manuscript is returned by a publisher with the comment "Are you kidding?" Wolff, 40, a former U.S. Army officer in Viet Nam and an associate professor at Syracuse University, might have called his book In Our Time had not a former World War I ambulance driver used the title for his first collection 60 years...
Perhaps the biggest lesson from the rapid rebound in Los Angeles gang murders, say cops and other gang experts, is that aggressive policing alone will never break the cycle of gang violence. Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who works in gang-infested Boyle Heights, says the antigang strategy developed in California and copied elsewhere "is bankrupt. You have the three-strikes law and jail and so on, but you can't terrify a kid into being hopeful about his future." Many cops agree. "We don't need new laws," says Sergeant Wes McBride, founder of the California Gang Investigators...
...went to the University of Michigan on a premed program. I chose medicine because in high school I was quite interested in science. Then I went into the Army, expecting that I might stay there. I became Catholic, with the idea that I might become a priest. And I came from a farm, so there was always that. But I continued to think about following my father as an actor...
...video clip from the Bosnian war is profoundly shocking: a Serb Orthodox priest can be seen blessing Serb troops from a unit known as the Scorpions as they head out on their mission in 1995. The same men are then shown forcing six emaciated Bosnian Muslims from the back of a canvas-covered truck. They bind the prisoners' hands, march them into a clearing and machine-gun them, one by one, while the others watch. The clip, filmed by the unit and obtained by a Serb human-rights investigator, aired last week in the Hague at the trial...