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VLADIMIR ZAKHAROV Church Elder In the Church of St. Sergei a seven-year-old boy tilts his head as a priest snips off a lock of his hair and dips it in a cistern of holy water. The boy and six others have just been baptized. Vladimir Zakharov proudly watches the service. Though not a priest, Zakharov, 46, is an elder at St. Sergei's who oversees the Russian Orthodox Church's ! charity mission. Baptisms are now fairly common, but the new parishioners do not come solely for spiritual sustenance. Many are poor, and they look to St. Sergei...
Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
...perfect child who once wanted to be a priest is grown up and, despite the Italian cut of his suits, still looks as if his mother dresses him in the morning and tousles his hair before sending him off. Critics think the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos has insufficient heft to speak for the President; yet this brooding, dark presence has a quiet authority. His power whisper makes people lean into him, like plants reaching toward...
...Haitian priest and aide to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says President ) Bush lost the election because he is under a voodoo curse. No wonder he couldn't shake the voodoo economics habit! Was Ronald Reagan a victim...
...succeeding versions have been pored over by bishops, priests, consultants and parishioners and picked apart by censorious Vatican clerics who summoned bishops to Rome and sent the Americans two secret letters warning against principles they thought too progressive. A priest who has seen the letters says they would be very upsetting to American women...