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6:30 a.m. OLD DOWNTOWN BRIDGE First come the schoolkids--dozens of them, over the old concrete bridge, some in the plaid-skirt, white-blouse uniforms of Roman Catholic schools, others dressed public school casual. Some were born in the U.S.; some have permanent residency status there, but their parents...
The man most responsible for NAFTA Man's ascendance in McAllen is a former Catholic priest turned economic hustler named, coincidentally, Mike Allen. As president of the local economic-development office, the 63-year-old executive uses local tax funds to attract business to McAllen--as well as to its...
But there is a more spiritual side to Bono as well. A devout Catholic, he and his bandmates dabbled in evangelicalism during their youthful days in Dublin. At that time, they were torn between their increasingly demanding rock lifestyle and their spiritual devotion.
Steve Stockman, a U2 biographer and Dublin resident, says the band had grown up in an "archaic Catholic country that was very sheltered from the outside world" in the 1970s. For that reason, "their first two albums were about themselves and God."
“The only way I can be in the Catholic church is to be fighting against it,” Egashira says. “I believe faith is a gift and I have every right to call myself a Catholic and be one, but also a responsibility...