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...surely seemed that way in Bishop, Calif., since the strike began two weeks ago. With its own airport, Bishop (pop. 3,500) is better off than many stops in Greyhound's network. Still, only one flight, on a 19-passenger plane, leaves Bishop daily for Los Angeles, and at $125 one way, not everyone can afford a ticket. Many people in the town -- 40% of whom are elderly -- don't have cars. When they want to get out of Bishop, they go down to the terminal and take the 1:30 p.m. Greyhound to Los Angeles (6 1/2 hours southwest...
Nonetheless, the official Roman Ritual still includes a rite of exorcism. The code of canon law includes rules for exorcism, specifying that only a bishop may authorize one. Rome still holds fast to belief in Satan: in a 1986 sermon, Pope John Paul insisted upon the reality of a personal devil and recognized the possibility of demonic possession. The secret draft for a forthcoming Catechism for the Universal Church, now being examined by the world's bishops, continues the traditional teachings about Satan and fallen angels...
...much for the importance of image. But Carril actually did try, taking up orange-and-black bow ties at one point. That is Armond Hill's first memory of him, when Hill was a senior at Bishop Ford High School in Brooklyn. (Carrilism: Always recruit at schools whose names begin with Bishop or Monsignor.) "I saw this short guy with a bow tie and a big cigar lying down in the bleachers," Hill recalls. "After the game he came down and told me everything I did wrong and that he could make me a better player. It was that, more...
...czarist times. In 1969 a soccer club from Moscow traveled to Tashkent and made the mistake of beating the home team. Uzbek fans went on a rampage and defenestrated several Russian students at the local university. It was weeks before even rumors of the incident reached Moscow. Now, when Bishop Berkeley's tree falls in the Russian forest, there is a camera crew from State Radio and Television to chronicle the event, along with several foreign correspondents, a visiting political scientist or two and an attache from the U.S. embassy...
...warning from a bishop to New York's pro-choice Catholic Governor resurrects old questions about translating religious teachings into public policy...