Word: priestly
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...Buddhist priest's most lucrative activity is writing kaimyo, posthumous names (example: "Heroic disciple to Buddha residing in ravine full of sunshine and nightingales"), without which deceased Buddhists cannot reach "the better world." A kaimyo can cost between $650 and $1,300; prices for more lavish names reach several million dollars. The fees are taxexempt. Many priests, however, have also turned entrepreneur, running lots, wedding halls and real estate agencies. Although priestly income is taxed at a top rate of 20%, vs. 43.3% for corporations, the bureau charges have been engaging in loose bookkeeping...
...exiles who might make good recruits. The CIA men began by poring over lists of students and teachers, compiling dossiers on likely candidates and placing them under surveillance. Those who seemed thoroughly reliable and unquestionably pro-mujahedin received casual invitations to lunch from a visiting American professor, or a priest, perhaps, or even a Saudi businessman. All were undercover CIA agents. While the CIA was recruiting some 50 such Afghans in Europe, it was also, with help from the FBI, gathering a similar group in the U.S. Though most of the recruits were students, one was a Manhattan taxi driver...
...Catholic tradition, was well known in Spam when Opus Dei was born. It was in Madrid, on Oct. 2, 1928, that Hospital Chaplain Escrivá received an instantaneous vision of the Opus Dei concept as church bells began to ring. Escrivá's idea, a reaction to the priest-dominated Spanish church, was to encourage the laity to play an important role in the church. "God led me by the hand," he said later. "Quietly, little by little, until his castle was built." Escrivá moved his headquarters to Rome in 1946 to make the movement seem less Spanish...
...experience." Peter Brooks, a professor of French and comparative literature at Yale, remembers "that certain elegance." Robert Watkins III, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., recalls alliteratively, "the supreme sense of self-confidence." And Missouri-born Perry Smith, then the president of the Lampoon and now an Episcopal priest, sums up his college experiences as if they were part of a fable: "Little midwestern boy came and made good...
After nearly 40 years as a parish priest, I have dealt with many funeral directors, and I have met only one who was disreputable. Mercifully, he went out of business. The ones I have dealt with in hundreds of funerals have been kind, thoughtful, sympathetic and understanding. Upon occasion, they have been recipients of unjustified abuse, even though some often handle welfare burials at fees below cost. I do not claim that there are no crooks in the business, but there are not many...