Word: priestly
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...bland as the "dove"-like American heiress, grows on you: though she never quite captures Milly's intense vitality and will to live, in her final scenes her placidity, affecting without being treacly, is vested with surprising grace. Roache (last seen in the lead role of the controversial Priest) delivers a convincing and finely nuanced performance as the attractive and passionate but indecisive lover who's neither quite strong nor quite weak enough to be a true...
What animates Nearer are Buckley's personal chapters: his recollection of a year or so at a Jesuit boarding school in England, an awed visit to Lourdes, and a moving account of his nephew Michael Bozell's ordination as a Benedictine priest in France. In a charming tribute to onetime Punch editor Malcolm Muggeridge, he recounts, with dry hilarity, a private audience with the Pope at which a badly briefed John Paul II seemed utterly baffled as to who his guests were. (Buckley nonetheless managed to inform the Pope--and us--that he too has a private chapel at home...
Altar of the Unholy Blasphemy urges readers to "sodomize Jesus Christ for Christ would love to sodomize you....Sodomize the priest--Avenge the little boys of the world...
...youngster, Johnson used to sneak out of his house to grab a bite at the Tasty. "My parents wouldn't let me go to the Tasty," he recounts. "They wanted me to be a good Christian boy, a Catholic priest perhaps...
...discovered the Tasty and it dawned on them that there was no way in hell I was going to the priest-hood...