Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They charge not one thin dime for the most gloriously twisted show in New York City, which stars a muttering reputed Mafia don in a wheelchair, his loyal brother the Catholic priest and ex-jailbird, and a pack of rats who talk about whacking nicknamed brethren like it's some kind of citywide croquet tournament. But it's O.K. if you can't get into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman...
Circa A.D. 33 In The Gospel According to John, as Jesus is being arrested outside the Garden of Gethsemane, St. Peter cuts off the right ear of Malchus, a servant of the high priest. In The Gospel According to Luke, Jesus reattaches...
...winning an Oscar, but STEVEN SEAGAL has a new line for his resume. The action star has become a Buddhist and has reportedly given money to the Tibetan cause. Now he has earned a title for his efforts--tulku, recognition that he's a reincarnated lama (that's the priest, not the beast). The honor was awarded by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the Nyingma lineage and the 11th Throneholder of the Palyul monastery. Not all Buddhists are happy about the award. There are accusations that tulku titles are being sold...
DIED. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, 67, fiery priest who sparked hope in the bleak aftermath of Detroit's 1967 race riots by founding a hugely successful organization to feed and train the urban poor; of complications related to cancer; in Detroit. The once shaggy-haired cleric led Focus: HOPE while zipping about his parish on a Harley-Davidson...
...first place. For centuries the standards for this were clear and high: mental illness of either spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John Keating, a young American priest, wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights" to assess failed marriages. Since then American clergy have psychologized enthusiastically. The Archdiocese of Chicago, for instance, will now consider annulling the union of a "person [who did] not intend to care for his/her partner...