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Long gone are the days when the Radio Priest called Franklin Delano Roosevelt "the great liar and betrayer," when he joined with Huey Long's third-party movement and loudly boomed his weekly antiwar message across the country from Detroit's Station WJR. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years...
...shock of her court-appointed lawyer, Louis Renga, who had not yet arrived at her probation hearing, Nancy accepted Judge Kearney's offer of sterilization-only to be dissuaded later by her family, her doctor and a local priest. When newspapers broke the story, more than 300 citizens offered to sign a petition declaring that sterilization is hardly a cure for Nancy's problems. Calling Judge Kearney's offer "cruel and unusual punishment," Lawyer Renga also pointed out that California law specifies "reasonable" conditions for probation toward the end that "rehabilitation will be served...
...make sure, the Burtons are playing as bawdy a Bard as they can conceive. In the single entendre wedding scene, for example, Burton gobbles up Communion bread like a starving ragamuffin, cuffs the astonished priest, and fumbles grossly through his filthy clothes till at last he finds the wedding ring in his codpiece...
...potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother and a venal priest...
Often clasping his hands in a gesture of prayer, the Buddhist priest spoke bluntly, but in a soft and hesitant English. "I am a messenger from the suffering peasants in South Vietnam," Nhat Hanh announced, "and I have come here to tell you that the war must stop...