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...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
Some journalists criticized Newsweek for breaking the vow with North, a trust they compared to that between priest and parishoner or attorney and client. Uncovering truth and finding trusting sources in the future, they said, could be made a great deal more difficult because of the magazine's story...
Confronted by assertive lay Catholics, pastors are often disinclined to enforce official teachings. Chicago Priest John Carolan remarks, "We don't talk about birth control. Young couples appreciate the freedom to make those decisions on their own." Says Father Eli Bauwens, of his parishioners at St. Brigid's in Los Angeles: "I've told them that what you do in your bedroom is your decision." Many have been divorced and remarried, and despite church rules, he quietly allows them to receive Communion anyway...
With charity in mind, Father Giuseppe Federici, a parish priest in Latina, 37 miles southeast of Rome, opened the doors of his church to about 50 East European refugees camped outside last month. Within three days, however, their numbers had burgeoned to almost 600. It took a month for Italian authorities to find new lodgings for the refugees...
...tuberculosis; her father later put her and her older sister in a Catholic convent school, and she learned at the age of six that he had suddenly died of ptomaine poisoning. Convent life was benign but austere. Three winters in a row she suffered pneumonia so severe that a priest administered Extreme Unction...