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...Complete the following joke: A priest and a rabbi meet while they are out walking their dogs. They are old friends. The priest is walking a Golden Retriever, the rabbi a Chihuahua. They decide to go to a nearby restaurant for lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancel the Campaign! Let's Play 'Who Wants to Be a President'! | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...educated, housed and cared for hundreds of thousands of Catholics and non-Catholics. He was a proud advocate of workers' rights and a supporter of unions. And his insistent importunings have advanced ecumenism, particularly with the Jewish community. He was an extraordinary prince of the church but always a priest first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...Similarly, another skit features a Framingham construction worker turned priest delivering a eulogy for a lost friend. It is no easy feat to accept a eulogy to a friend who has succumbed to AIDS when both religion and mourning are contexutalized in the larger framework of drag queens and lost penises. Is the priest mocking those who have lost friends to the virus or those who have turned to God in their final months on earth...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lympdick: Standing Tall | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

When comedian Bob Newhart and his fiance, Virginia Quinn, asked a priest to marry them, the clergyman balked. Show-biz marriages never last, he told them. The priest was wrong. Thirty-seven years later, Bob and Ginnie are still together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: Staying Power | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...anti-Dharma, and demonstrates a wider range than she was allowed in her previous films (_EdTV_, _Grosse Pointe Blanke_). Rounding out the eclectic cast is the classic Anne Brancroft as Jacob's passionately Jewish mom, and Milos Foreman, (Norton's _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_ director) as an older priest who guides Brian through his personal and religious turmoil...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tired Joke Breeds Stale Comedy | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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