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...very much aware there is nothing tidy about our proposal," confessed Father Jeffrey Steenson of Rosemont, Pa., a member of the committee that crafted the compromise. The bishops readily passed the bill after endorsement by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, who was leading his first church convention, but it was nearly killed by priests and laity in the separate House of Deputies. Nedi Moore, a woman priest from Salinas, Calif., termed the measure "insulting," and the Rev. James Fisher of Easton, Md., objected to the idea that "you can be a bishop here but not a bishop there...
...friends, the baby-faced Gerard Steenson, 29, a founder of the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army, was known as "Pretty Boy." But when he was buried in Belfast last week, some recalled his other nickname: "Dr. Death." Steenson, gunned down as he and an associate drove through West Belfast, had been accused of killing at least half a dozen people over the past decade...
...Steenson, the latest victim of a feud that has left ten people dead, was apparently murdered by rival INLA members. Founded in 1975 as an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, the INLA began to be ripped apart by a power struggle late last year. With no end in sight, the vicious squabble threatens to destroy the band, a goal that until now has eluded authorities...
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