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...philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In the Vatican, he met his future wife, Robin Crotty, and together they founded Fiat Productions, a Catholic theater Company. Ty’s involvement in religion was also coupled with a commitment to charity. Ty met Priest Chaplain Bruce Teague when he interned at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. When his internship was over, Ty chose to stay on as a volunteer continuing to treat patients and developing a computer program to document the hospital’s spiritual care program. Teague calls...
...case waiting to happen," says Ivana Bacik, a criminal-law professor at Trinity College, Dublin. For O'Gorman, the demonstrations signify that at least people are capable of demanding protection when the legal system fails - a dramatic change from the days when no one dared accuse, say, a priest of wrongdoing. "The more these scandals arise, the more informed the public," he says. "Nobody in Ireland would ever suggest anymore that sexual abuse doesn't happen, or that we shouldn't talk about it. That's the big shift." Just four hours after Friday's demonstrations, one extent of that...
Hess, 26, didn't have an idea for a movie, but after some record shopping and pizza he mentioned a fascination with the life of a Mexican priest named Fray Tormenta. (Yes, Nacho Libre is based on a true story.) Black said, "Dude, I'm in." "We didn't have a script or anything," says Hess, "but he was confident we'd come up with something good." Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around...
...rowing single, she says, was the cheapest that could be bought, and “he would think nothing of the fact that his suit was older than his children.”The first Wednesday of every month, he would lunch with a group of friends: an episcopal priest, an architect, the head of a homeless coalition.As he traveled, he kept up a steady correspondence with friends, many of whom have bundles of his letters. Bingham was thoughtful, coming to help Runyon’s wife clear out the brush around their rural home with his chainsaw...
...Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...