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...Concerns no priest. A gaping silken dragon...
Saying Mass at a side altar of Hyannis' St. Francis Xavier Church, the Rev. John F. Keough, a visiting priest from Ireland's County Cork, found himself without an altar boy. Leaving his wife and seven children in their pew, an overage volunteer quickly moved in to fill the gap. Not until the congregation had departed did Father Keough learn that his self-appointed assistant had been U.S. Attorney General (and ex-acolyte) Robert F. Kennedy...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...
...much. The French offered to back him as head of a provisional government at one stage, but they balked when he demanded dominion status for Viet Nam. Finally, amid the bloody fighting, Ngo Dinh Diem packed up and left with an older brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, a Catholic priest, for a trip around the world. Reaching the U.S., Diem paused to rest and meditate at Maryknoll Junior College in Lakewood, N.J. While there, he made trip after trip to Washington to harangue Congressmen and Government officials in the cause of Vietnamese independence. "The French may be fighting the Communists...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. As a thinker, Yeats had his crotchets, including a belief in ghosts, fairies, and table rapping, but his holy trinity was Ireland, beauty and poetry, and no priest ever served his faith better...