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Romero, a telegraph operator's son who entered seminary at 13, was known as a conservative but also as a man of the people. He started speaking out as soon as he became archbishop-and had reason to. Within weeks a priest and two companions were machine-gunned, their bodies riddled with the type of bullets used by the police. The right-wing "White Warriors' Union," a pro-government vigilante group with ties to business, killed another priest to avenge an assassination by left-wing terrorists. Next, the White Warriors vowed to execute the 47 Jesuits...
...gate to the Protestant cemetery on Catholic Falls Road in Belfast, Canon Pádraig Murphy, a towering Roman Catholic priest, and the Rev. Terence Rodgers, Rector of the Protestant Church of Ireland, greet families who have come to visit their dead. It is "Friendship Sunday"-one of four during the year when Protestants can be guaranteed safe conduct into this Catholic stronghold. The two men find discernible improvement in attitudes in Belfast, while reluctantly acknowledging that a new outbreak of violence has left nine dead in the preceding ten days. "A lot of it isn't political...
...priest on Everything
Celibacy. "I just can't accept the notion that a married Protestant minister, all other things being equal, is as free to serve his people as is the celibate Catholic priest ... Nor is there any evidence from the research done that celibate priests are any more insensitive or incapable of intimacy than are married men of the same age and educational experience...
Then it was over. "... There was a sheet over Jack, his foot was sticking out of the sheet, whiter than the sheet. His mouth was so beautiful ... his eyes were open. They found his hand under the sheet, and I held his hand all the time the priest was saying extreme unction." Her gloves had stiffened with his blood and she gave one of her hands to "this policeman," and he pulled the glove off. Then: "... the ring was all blood-stained ... so I put the ring on Jack's finger ... and then I kissed his hand...