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...rural Ribeirao Bonito in the Mato Grosso on Oct. 11, another Brazilian bishop went to the police station with Jesuit Father Joao Bosco Penido Burnier to investigate the torture of two women prisoners. After a nasty argument a policeman shot the priest to death before the bishop's eyes...
MASSACHUSETTS. Fourth Congressional District-Incumbent Robert Drinan (D) v. Arthur Mason (R): Jesuit Priest Drinan expected to win-narrowly...
...About 1.5 million people must share their dwellings with other families; the waiting period for an apartment is often as long as ten years. Sixty miles south of Warsaw, in the town of Radom, where last summer workers set fire to the local Communist Party headquarters, a Catholic priest observed, "The mood is bad. People complain, they curse, they show little interest in doing their jobs properly...
Betty was now finishing up her media message with the usual statement that "Gerry Joe will do all he can to help the Peanut unify the Ivy League," a comment which instigated more grumblings from the dethroned High Priest of Multiflex...
Mason will be counting on the western part of the district because the eastern portion is pretty much in Drinan's pocket. The Catholics in the west often say they don't like a priest in politics and seem enthusiastic about the challenger up until Election Day. Linsky is familiar with this phenomenon. "People complain about a priest in politics, but in Fitchburg they vote 8-to-1 or 9-to-1 for him. The people fall all over you, but once they get into the voting booth, they don't want to vote against someone who is a 'messenger...