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...right wing--a divider, not a uniter. By the time Michigan voters were going to the polls last Tuesday, McCain had taken Bush's visit to Fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and turned it into a symbol of the entire race. Bush, whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism, was forced to stand up and deny that he was an anti-Catholic bigot...
Most priests won't turn supplicants away, but Brazil's Padre Marcelo Rossi, 31, must--or risk a riot. Second only to the Pope, the 6-ft. 4-in. priest is the greatest crowd gatherer in the Roman Catholic world. His appeal? After Mass, he sings and dances the Lord's praises in an electric whirlwind that he has termed, appropriately, "the aerobics of the Lord." While his followers sing along, he executes choreographed jumps, leaps and twists that the faithful try to copy. And when the spirit moves the Father especially vigorously, he will pour buckets of holy water...
...shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from Brazil's powerful Roman Catholic Church. "The human body is sacred," argued Eugenio Cardinal Sales, Archbishop of Rio. "We cannot expose it for the purpose...
...Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down but up; it more than doubled between 1977 and 1995, from 26% to 54%. Andrew Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest and professor of social science at the University of Chicago, argues that these high rates stem largely from America's religiosity. Americans who attend religious services weekly are twice as likely to volunteer their help as those who attend barely at all. One-third of the people who volunteer...
...ceremony, which will be a private affair in the Lampoon castle, will celebrate the author's Greco-Roman wrestling ability and bestow him with an honorary membership...