Word: priesting
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Cohen: We had active voodoo priest advisors all through the making of the picture both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And I would say that if they did not like what we were doing, we would not have been able to complete the movie...
...voodoo priest in the southern region of Grande Anse, famed for his clairvoyant powers, foresees blood in Haiti's immediate future. He is not alone. A young woman who identifies herself only as Monique has piled her four small children onto a crowded bus that is heading for the boondocks. Like many others who live in the slums that surround Port-au-Prince, Monique does not want to be anywhere near the capital city during the election scheduled this Sunday. "I'm disappearing," she whispers, her eyes darting to see if she has been overheard. South of the capital...
...offensive could be in the works. "People are beginning to say that it hasn't changed a damn thing," says Ken Maginnis, Westminster M.P. for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, which includes Enniskillen. "Deep down, the mistrust between the two communities is still there." Says a Catholic parish priest in Belfast: "Every time there is a consensus, the I.R.A. delivers a reminder that it still has a vicious bite." And so Ulster watches and waits...
...greatest impact is on the spirits and spirituality of the laity. "By building a new church, we create a different world," says Eugeniusz Kliminski, 53, a priest in Radom, an industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. Day by day he watches Our Lady, Queen of Apostles, rising in his parish. When the semicircular structure is finished, topped by a soaring burnished-copper roof, it will be a glittering exception to Radom's gloomy skyline. But the work is going slowly. Money is in short supply, despite contributions from as far away as France and Italy. At the present rate...
Breslin explores the urban jungle through the innocent eyes of Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, an Irish priest who has been transferred from his mission in Africa to crusade in New York against sexual activity not sanctioned by Holy Mother Church. Father D'Arcy is accompanied by Great Big, a 7-ft. African with a craving for potato chips but not much to say. Great Big is, however, credited with the novel's title line ("I got hungry and forgot my manners"), which is Breslin's blunt way of making the historical point that people who do not have enough...