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Sumo has always seemed a peculiar sport. Two behemoth-size men in loincloths rinse out their mouths with water, throw salt in a clay ring and ram their massive bodies against each other for a few seconds under the suspended roof of a Shinto shrine. "Mysterious. Religious. Philosophical." That's how retired wrestler Keisuke Itai describes sumo. But if accusations he is making are to be believed, it is a sport that is also full of cheaters...
...Baltimores National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary will host the kick-off concert in the Roman Catholic Church's tribute series to the birth of Jesus Christ...
When Joseph first arrived in Hazleton, the Rev. Gerard Angelo, pastor of the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart, asked to see him and was persuaded of Joseph's sincerity. "I wanted to make sure he wasn't a nut," says Angelo, whose shrine draws 100,000 pilgrims a year. He says he checked out Joseph's background but is keeping mum to maintain the preacher's mystique. He says, however, that the bishop has given his blessing...
...doesn't just admire the Republican presidential candidate--he has set up a shrine...
...Maybe one day another student will set up a shrine...