Word: priesting
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...transacted with fists, are prone to become battered wives and battering husbands themselves. Worse, battered children grow up predisposed to batter their own offspring. Sexually abused boys often become pedophiles and rapists, while sexually victimized girls, perennial targets, are likelier to become battered wives. Bruce Ritter, a Roman Catholic priest, runs a shelter for teen-age runaways and castoffs in the neon squalor of Manhattan's Times Square. "The girls who walk in off the streets with babies abuse them," Father Ritter says. "If a two-week-old baby is crying, the mother will slap the baby...
...savagely beaten up in his cell by the prison director and other high-ranking officials. After they had left, José Maria's back was just one vast, bloody wound. Even on the dawn of their execution, prisoners are unable to have the support of a priest...
...Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted D.H. Lawrence in Priest of Love...
...tall, soft-spoken Clark, whose open face, ruddy cheeks and piercing brown eyes make him look like a 1940s-style Hollywood version of the Irish priest he considered becoming, has a history of overcoming handicaps and surprising people who underestimate him. Indeed, his management ability, infighting skills and close ties to Reagan have made him, in the judgment of many, the second most powerful man in the White House. Clark has encouraged the President to follow his raw, conservative instincts rather than the more pragmatic and politically savvy agendas suggested by White House Chief of Staff James Baker. This uncritical...
...appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic Dr. Slump. There is even a manga temple outside Tokyo where, above the central altar, a legend is inscribed: THE IDEAL PRIEST...