Word: priestly
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...late it has been the scene of doings that would make the ministrants of Rosemary's Baby blush. For the past four weeks, the gruesome evidence has poured forth in a Zurich courtroom. On trial are six people, including Joseph Stocker, 61, a defrocked and excommunicated South German priest, and his fanatically religious mistress, Magdalena Kohler, 54. The charge...
...Final Yes. From 1958, the entire Hasler family had been under the influence of the Stocker-Kohler "holy family." The ex-priest and his mistress believed that they had been chosen by God to lead the survivors of a coming apocalypse. Minutely detailed instructions for the group came from a Carmelite nun, known as "the Little Star," over her "direct telephone to heaven...
...Never Too Late. "It was while I was-there that my father died. That was a very big blow." John Farrow's reputation as a roistering, reckless womanizer conflicted sharply with the strict, militant Catholicism he displayed at home. But Mia accepted what confounded his colleagues. "He was priest and lover, powerful and incompetent, strong and weak, a poet and a sailor. He was a very complicated man and I loved him very much." And her mother? "Well . . . like . . . my father was strict, and she was his wife...
HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fact and fantasy in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, a would-be priest who dreamed of being called first to the cloth and then to the throne of St. Peter-becoming the second English...
...Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise it with bell, book and candle...