Word: priesting
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...makes him a strong leader, according to TIME's poll; 65% of Kerry's say it makes Bush close-minded. "I respect him for having faith," says Tim Baer, a religious-studies major at the University of Oklahoma who wants to go to a seminary and become an Episcopal priest. "I just disagree with how he uses his faith as a President. It's dividing people...
...choice politician should stay away from the Communion rail. Kerry meanwhile insists that he will continue to practice both his faith and his politics as always, and so the watch is on. Can the Democratic nominee travel the country throughout the next five months of Sundays without a priest turning him away? As Kerry campaigns this week in Colorado--a state his strategists have designated one of their top targets in November--more than 250 American Catholic bishops and several Cardinals will be there too, discussing, among other things, how to deal with the increasingly tense relationship between the church...
...existed. It wasn't until Nicolo Polo and his son Marco returned from their second trip along the legendary route laden with the treasures and innovations that Nicolo had claimed to see on previous journeys that Venetians began to believe the tales. Even then, at Marco's deathbed, a priest came to ask whether he would be willing to confess his falsehoods. "I did not tell half of what I saw," Marco replied. Nearly 800 years after the Polos made their epic journeys along the Silk Road, the romance of this historic trade route has hardly dissipated. Dr. Susan Whitfield...
...shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested by a priest in the '60s. The theme of child abuse could be treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more Cannes films this year - but that wouldn't suit Almodóvar's cine-showmanship. The story spins backward four times before landing on its subject, then skips assuredly...
...exceptionally talkative Myriam had kept the legal machine rolling for years by confirming the children's otherwise unsubstantiated charges that others were involved: the taxi driver that took them on their monthly shopping trips; the woman that sold them bread from a grocery truck; the well-liked local priest. On Tuesday Myriam proclaimed in court that none of the other 13 had done anything wrong, crying, "I'm a sick person and a liar!" Shock turned to anger, however, when the presiding judge - acting against even the prosecutor's recommendation - released only one of the seven of those 13 defendants...