Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discipline of the Katangese soon collapsed. Drunken guerrillas ran amuck, shooting, killing, wounding, maiming and raping. Random executions increased after the rebels heard that a rescue attempt was under way. Some of the guerrillas displayed a kind of gallows humor. A mission priest was confronted by raiders who admired his cutlery, clock and radio...
...Take what you want," replied the priest...
...spent his own money on mailings promoting Roman Catholic devotion to St. Jude, the patron of hospitals and hopeless cases. Carcich's letters did not ask for contributions in so many words, but money flowed in anyway. Building on his St. Jude mailing list, the priest later developed massive direct-mail pitches for the Pallottines, whose 2,200 priests and brothers minister in 23 countries. Seventeen years and $175 million in proceeds later, Carcich, 59, last week pleaded guilty to "fraudulent misappropriation" of funds in Baltimore Criminal Court...
...both sides, reports that, among other things, Carcich diverted at least $102,000 from his 20 secret bank accounts to friends, relatives and fellow Pallottines. Nonetheless, according to the lawyers' memo, the Superior General of the order in Rome says Carcich is "a good man and a good priest." Carcich contends that whatever his sins, he did it all for the church...
...Loose (NBC). About three girls who share a Honolulu condominium ... In the pilot, a nursery school teacher falls for a priest she meets...