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Russell, on the other hand, leaves the door to her office open and allows a parade of citizens to pop in, including one Catholic priest who stopped by one recent day and asked, "You behavin' Mayor...
...Sony contract and later snapped up a $52 million deal with DreamWorks? This from a man who wrote these lyrics for his 1987 hit single I Want Your Sex: "Sex with me/ Have sex with me/ C-c-c-c-come on." Now he's the high priest of piousness? C-c-c-c-come...
...assist at Mass, is the first American hierarch in more than 30 years to order a mass excommunication--an edict that prohibits Catholics from receiving the sacraments. His action has sparked dissent not only from area parishioners such as Jean and John Krejci, a former nun and former priest who said they would ignore the order, but also from church-law experts like Father James Coriden of Washington Theological Union, in Silver Spring, Maryland, who called the bishop's action, "harmful, wrong and canonically invalid...
None of which means gay marriages are inevitable, only that something is. The running argument between what feels Christian and what the church currently practices actually seems to be approaching climaxes on several fronts at once right now, as the roles of priest and citizen and married couple all struggle to be reborn in harmony. But this time gays will undoubtedly be part of the equation and, if all goes well, part of the harmony...
...length. The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That's not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life. In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us "splendid nobodies" who are larger than death...