Word: priesting
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...young helpless prey he comes across." Most amazing of all, Steve the Tramp is also a child's toy. The 5-in. figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across...
...enemies and mesmerized his followers, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide often described his movement as a lavalas, the Haitian term for a cleansing avalanche that will wash away tyranny and corruption. That image was particularly relevant last week, as a political lavalas carried the 37-year-old Roman Catholic priest to an overwhelming victory in Haiti's first truly democratic presidential elections...
...carnage occurred at a rally last week for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the popular priest who is the front runner in this Sunday's presidential elections and a survivor of at least three assassination attempts. Father Aristide blamed the violence on the Tontons Macoutes, the notorious secret police force loyal to the deposed Duvalier dictatorship. Together with the army, the Macoutes had forced cancellation of the 1987 elections by massacring 34 voters. But this time Haitians seemed determined to vote, no matter what calamities occurred on the campaign trail. Said a caller to Radio Haiti-Inter...
According to those protesting last night, the gay activists gathered in front of the cathedral last June chanting slogans such as "2-4-6-8, how do you know your priest is straight," and "If I can't have sex, no one else will either" on the same day that 11 men were being ordained...
...streets Cesar is reportedly known as the "Pope of Pot," high priest of the Church of the Realized Fantasy, whose ad hoc philosophy preaches the evil of money and the virtue of easy access to sex and drugs. For all Cesar's fulminations against hard cash, however, he certainly did not spurn it. Police say that, by Cesar's own estimate, the pot line netted $40,000 a day, enough for him to purchase a luxury Eastside Manhattan apartment and a mansion in New Jersey...