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...have suffered hardship], and then other times there's no gauging it. Everybody who's been through it will tell you exactly the same thing. This is not unique to us. There's a great Chinese proverb about a woman who loses her son. She goes to the priest and says, "You have to do something about this. You can't let this be." The priest says, "I can help you. You have to go to a house and get mustard seed, but you have to get it from a house that has no grief." And she went from house...
...already paid out $53 million in settlements, felt unable to cover the possible tab. He claimed that insurance companies had "abandoned" him. Such balkiness on payouts has increased, with insurers often citing a 1996 court ruling excusing them if their client did not merely overlook abuse by a priest but knew enough to expect...
...life story would make a pretty cool movie. The son and nephew of GM factory workers, Moore was educated by nuns and Jesuits, and at 14 he briefly attended a seminary and had thoughts of becoming a priest. Eagle scout; expert hunter; good student. After disagreeing with a policy at his high school, he ran for the Davison County school board--and won, making him, at 18, one of the youngest elected officials in the nation...
...choice politician should stay away from the Communion rail. Kerry meanwhile insists that he will continue to practice both his faith and his politics as always, and so the watch is on. Can the Democratic nominee travel the country throughout the next five months of Sundays without a priest turning him away? As Kerry campaigns this week in Colorado--a state his strategists have designated one of their top targets in November--more than 250 American Catholic bishops and several Cardinals will be there too, discussing, among other things, how to deal with the increasingly tense relationship between the church...
When Dick Durbin's hometown priest slammed the Senator's pro-choice voting record, Durbin's office did not sit idle. It compiled a scorecard ranking 24 Catholic Senators by their votes on issues of concern to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Abortion made the list, but so did the minimum wage, the death penalty and media ownership, all weighted equally. Democrats did better than Republicans, and the test's high scorer was John Kerry. An incensed (and low scoring) Senator Rick Santorum fumed that abortion and "how many television stations somebody owns ... are not equivalent moral issues." True...