Word: priestly
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...clothing. "What you see on the news and what you see in the church are totally different," says former Hillcrest pastor Max Parker. But Bowers has shown no sign of renouncing racist violence. He describes proponents of racial integration as heretics and said in a 1994 interview, "When a priest sees a heretic, he can do only one thing: he eliminates...
...image of the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea. As the rest or the town awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen of a new beau. The new parish priest sees it as the Isle of Skellig Michael, drifted from his native Ireland to remind him of his lost love and his current isolation...
...popping Viagra won't grow hair on your palms. But your childhood priest may have been right about another sex-related ailment. The American Academy of Ophthalmology says that the wildly popular potency pill may cause "retinal dysfunction and affect the way we see for a number of hours" -- including giving the world a "bluish tinge," spokesman Dr. Michael F. Marmor said in a statement Monday...
When Bradley was a Knick, his teammates used to call him "Mr. President." During the team's first championship season, in 1969-70, he showed up one night at a wild party thrown by his teammate Dave DeBusschere. Bradley, a teetotaler, was dressed as a priest. As DeBusschere later wrote, "Every now and then our future President tapped a guest on the back and said, 'Excuse me, but I'm ready to take your confession.'" It was Bradley's idea of a practical joke. Today, with his indictment of a "paralyzed and polarized" system in the thrall of money...
...Before fleeing into the jungle in 1963, the French-educated son of prosperous landowners, born Saloth Sar, taught school in Phnom Penh, and his former students remember him as a soft-spoken, even-tempered man who loved to recite his favorite poet, Verlaine. Francois Ponchaud, a French priest who first moved to Cambodia in 1965, says that when he heard the leader who called himself Pol Pot give a speech on the radio in 1977, "I remember saying to myself, this man knows how to speak. Not angry shouting, but with a gentle, well-modulated voice...