Word: shaken
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...weeks ago, my sister, a professional and a mother of four, was visibly shaken as she watched, on television, Israeli tanks torturing the streets of a refugee camp and soldiers raping its homes. She shocked us all when she declared that she would like to become a martyr. A few hours later, a young Palestinian woman stunned the world when she turned herself into a human bomb and exploded in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and wounding 150 others. In the weeks after, more women joined the queue of suicide bombers as the world stood alarmed and bewildered...
...Roman Catholics across the country fill the pews for Easter Mass, many lament the scandal that has shaken their belief to the core. "Of course we're outraged," says Herb Timm, a Winnetka, Ill., parishioner. Holy Family worshiper Ed Ternan called it a "milestone moment in the life of the church," tragic for the victims, tragic for the priests, tragic for the church. "The old way of dealing with it by not dealing with it is not going to work." Instead church leaders need to pray that they can find the remedy before parishioners lose their faith...
...says Florida attorney Sheldon Stevens, who has handled 75 abuse cases, "there is no source I am aware of that doesn't come, bottom line, from parishioners." And that's the biggest peril facing the church: shaken Catholics may have to decide whether they want to spend much more of their money to bring the church out of moral bankruptcy...
...involved should be punished to the full extent of the law, and everything possible should be done to keep this from happening again. I will never, however, lose trust in or stop loving my church. I hope Sullivan does not suppose our faith is so shallow as to be shaken by the sins of a few of our leaders. KATHY DOMZALSKI Newport Beach, Calif...
...Until the morning last November when Philippine troops backed by armored vehicles sealed off the recitation center and orphanage under cover of predawn darkness. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. an antiterrorist task force burst into the school to seize a shaken, protesting Selamah. (According to military sources, they also found passports of at least five different nationalities, at least one firearm and documents on explosives and bombmaking.) Three hours later in Manila, two apartments were raided, yielding firearms, explosives, time fuses, manuals on explosives, sketches of targets and two other non-Filipinos: Masrie, a 32-year-old Palestinian born...