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Gardner concentrates particularly on three individuals: a priest, a healer, and a fairly eccentric distributor of sacred fire. Keeping them straight, however, presents a somewhat difficult task--an almost unavoidable weakness in preserving the integrity of the cinema verite...
...infinite mercy may find forgiveness for your crimes," Judge Hugh Brunson told Defrocked Priest Gilbert Gauthe Jr. But the court, said Brunson, was faced with the "need of society to protect its most defenseless and vulnerable members, the children." Brunson sentenced Gauthe to 20 years in prison without parole after Gauthe pleaded guilty to sexually molesting eleven boys in his Henry, La., parish. Gauthe was the fourth Catholic priest imprisoned this year on such charges (the other cases occurred in Idaho, Wisconsin and Rhode Island) and the most severely penalized...
...popular priest in a small rural community, Gauthe, 40, admitted having sodomized and otherwise abused at least 35 children entrusted to his care. Last week's sentencing followed a plea-bargaining arrangement involving all of % the parents, which was undertaken to spare Gauthe's victims the trauma of testifying. But the case is not over. The diocese of Lafayette and its insurers have paid $4.9 million to settle eleven civil suits filed by the families, and ten more are pending...
...swamped with harrowing divorce proceedings." The status quo was backed by a majority of voters in twelve of the country's 26 cantons, including rural Appenzell, where women are still denied the right to vote on local issues. Among disappointed supporters of the old order was a Roman Catholic priest from Lucerne, who complained, "It all proves that old family virtues no longer count...
...also arranged for an interdenominational minister named Jeff Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov. He announced that record companies would, at their own discretion, put warning labels on certain albums: PARENTAL GUIDANCE--EXPLICIT LYRICS...