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...your life you try to imagine what bad news sounds like," she writes, "but when you actually hear bad news, it simply makes no sense; it's like being told the definition of a black hole by a physicist, directions by a local, the evidence of God by a priest." Tough, tender and tearful, Hunt Sisters helps us make sense of it all. --By Lev Grossman
Healing is Gibson's prime task, says a seasoned Hollywood marketing executive. "They've got the worst kind of controversy, the kind that goes to the core of their credibility," the executive says, noting that films like The Last Temptation of Christ and Priest grossed less than $10 million at the box office. "Gibson has to show it to Jewish religious leaders, as well as prominent cultural and intellectual figures. The public has to feel there's an overwhelmingly favorable consensus among people who might be offended...
DIED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 68, former priest imprisoned in 2002 for sexual abuse; after being attacked by a fellow inmate; in Boston. Revelations of Geoghan's misdeeds--130 people sued him for molesting them as children--led to a nationwide scandal for the Catholic Church after it was discovered that Geoghan and other similarly charged priests were moved to new parishes rather than prosecuted...
DIED. John J. Geoghan, 68, former Catholic priest and convicted child molester, after being strangled by an inmate serving a life sentence for killing a man he believed was gay; in a maximum security facility in Shirley, Massachusetts. Geoghan was accused of sexually abusing up to 150 boys during his 30 years as a priest, and last year was convicted of fondling a 10-year-old boy in Boston in 1991. After his sentencing, Geoghan was sent to the protective custody facility in Shirley because authorities worried he would be attacked by fellow inmates. Joseph L. Druce...
...from as far away as Oakland. After meeting and greeting and strolling the meditation labyrinth in Turner's backyard, the group held something resembling a church service, with an opening hymn, a blessing over the bread and wine and readings about Magdalene from the four Gospels. There was no priest, but Turner herself read what, if this were a Mass, might be a homily. "From the beginning," she intoned as the sun sank over Silicon Valley, "her view has been ignored, unappreciated. The first to see the risen Lord--those with more power have sought to marginalize...