Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a grueling 80 hours, the convicts got around to asking for guns and an armored car to use for their getaway. They offered to release nine of the hostages; they would take three women and the Rev. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain, with them in their escape vehicle, and let them go later. Carrasco said that their intention was to flee to Cuba and take their problem to Fidel. "If Castro decides to shoot me, he'll be doing me a favor," said Carrasco. Dominguez declared that he too was prepared to die. Cuevas, who does...
...that the ordinations were "irregular," even while contending they were "valid and right." None of the eleven had the required approval of her bishop and diocesan standing committee of clergy and laity. Moreover, the quartet of bishops who ordained them lacked authority on other grounds as well. The Rt. Rev. Robert L. De Witt, 58, the resigned Bishop of Pennsylvania; the Rt. Rev. Edward Randolph Welles II, 67, the retired Bishop of West Missouri; and the Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, 73, the retired bishop who had headed domestic missions, all apparently ignored a canon that forbids retired bishops to perform...
...flack kept the publicity flowing. Thousands of dollars went into elaborate signs and banners. The leaders arrived in limousines. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the committee, delivered his final exhortation in Korean, the kids, clutching their American flags, cheering in ecstasy...
...Rev. George von Hilsheimer, 39, a self-styled minister in the Free Religious Association, is fascinated by psychiatry. Though he has no degrees in the subject, he likes to talk about such "therapies" as electrosleep, vivid confrontation, megavitamins and hypode-sensitization. What is noteworthy about Von Hilsheimer, however, is that he has been able to try out these techniques, and others as well, during his nine years as superintendent of the Green Valley School for emotionally disturbed and delinquent children in Orange City...
British literary intelligentsia, Malcolm Muggeridge once said, may generally be viewed as "priests and religious manques. The Rev. Stephen Spender, Father [Cyril] Connolly, Dom Graham Greene, Sister Brigid Brophy." To this list should be added Muggeridge himself: the Prophet Malcolm...