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...Collector, by John Fowles. A taut thriller about a dour young man who spots the girl of his clouded dreams-and sets about getting her with a chloroformed gag, a getaway truck, and a cottage in the country that has a priest's hole in the cellar...
...Bishop Gooden-always ready with a pertinent joke-tells us that not long after the death of King George VI of England, when a Roman Catholic priest said to an Anglican priest. "I am sorry the head of your church died," the Anglican priest replied. "Yes. and on the third day He rose again...
...beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing M1 rifles as they advanced, overran the temple, snatched the smoldering coffin away, and smashed a statue of Gautama Buddha. From the temple's treasury they took an estimated $30,000 and left the pagoda...
Died. The Rev. Charles Dismas Clark, 61, Roman Catholic priest who devoted his life to helping released convicts in St. Louis get jobs and go straight (he took his middle name from the pseudepigraphical name of the good thief crucified by the side of Jesus); of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...roam the streets armed with forbidden weapons, breaking into houses, assaulting now this one, now that, giving them wounds." To accomplish the seduction of the nun, Osio frequently attended Mass at the convent, sent intermediaries with gifts of silver crucifixes and other valuables, and even employed a licentious priest to help him achieve a persuasive elegance in his love letters...