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Nevertheless, Greene complied with the dictator's wishes. During the Torrijos years, he worked on a novel, Monsignor Quixote, about the adventures of a simple village priest abroad in the world. In Panama, he was a real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
...indictment was a bitter blow to Donovan, 54, a seminary graduate who once considered becoming a priest. Instead, he went into the construction business, and became a millionaire building subways, bridges, tunnels and airports in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. One of the first business executives in the Northeast to come out strongly for Ronald Reagan during the 1980 Republican primaries, he eventually raised $600,000 for the campaign. Donovan's reward was a Cabinet post. From his earliest days in office, however, he was plagued by accusations, mostly made by gangsters, that he and his company...
Under canon law, a Catholic priest who breaks the confessional "seal" is automatically excommunicated. In U.S. practice, the confidentiality privilege has been extended to non-Catholic clergy and to non-sacramental counseling, with explicit clergy exemptions put into most state laws over the past several decades...
...does not exist at all for general religious work. In 1977, a New York court rejected a priest's contention that he was not required to testify about conversations he might have had with prison officials about an inmate he was counseling...
...social outcast who sweeps her off her feet and then unaccountably dumps her--but then, she didn't tell her mother they were going out. She pursues a career instead of marrying a nice Catholic boy and--well, you just wouldn't believe what she and the friendly neighborhood priest wind up doing. Maybe Cathy deserves to end up the way she does, but again, it's hard...