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...speed. When it struck the ice, according to Senja captain Sigurd Kleiven, the Soviet ship was steaming at about 18 knots in an area where Norwegian maritime officials say no more than 3 to 5 knots is advisable at this time of year. Said Bjorn Sorensen, a Lutheran parish priest on Spitsbergen, who led a church service for some passengers immediately after their rescue: "Nobody who prayed today can accuse God of having neglected his prayer...
...careful to call "Monsieur." In Paris the older generation -- not the younger -- can be so unfriendly that on Sunday at the big church of St. Philippe du Roule, one can witness a scene of uncommon standoffishness, even for Paris: at the point in the Mass when the priest says, "Now let us offer each other a sign of peace," nobody moves...
...apologized, the rumor had achieved its purpose. Foley was forced to deny it both on national television and before a party caucus. One Democrat at the meeting said that all around him eyes were averted when Foley, married 20 years and with the bearing and rectitude of a parish priest, had to assure his colleagues he was not a homosexual...
...appears to have been quite ordinary: an altar boy who liked to plink at bottles with his .22-cal Mossberg. Yet his mind has been jump-started by books, especially Dante's The Divine Comedy. "It was not just the blood and gore," he tells a friendly parish priest, "but that the people in Hell seemed real; the ones in Purgatory and Paradise were wordy and unbelievable...
Reid Cottingham dominates this bizarre drama as Susan, the troubled title character, who is losing her grip on reality. Susan hates her life. And why shouldn't she? Her husband, Gerald (Mark Brazaitis) is a befuddled priest more interested in his historical study of parish life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish...