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...church and was an apostate for most of my life. I called myself an agnostic, which simply means I was too lazy to figure it out. I returned to the church, luckily enough, about six months before I was kidnapped. I believed in God, I believed in Jesus Christ, I believed in the things the Catholic Church believed in. Well, not all of them. I'm not sure the Pope would like me too much, but I am a Catholic, whether he likes it or not. And thinking seriously about my religion was providential, I guess, because I needed...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...
Their name suggests an order of nuns, perhaps, or a sect of Christian pacifists. But the Lambs of Christ, in the words of one pro-choice leader, are "wolves in sheep's clothing." Although not so widely known as Operation Rescue, the Lambs may well be the most zealous and aggressive of the pro-life organizations that seek to shut down "killing centers" (abortion clinics) by intimidating protests that result in arrests and jail sentences for the protesters...
...communities across the U.S., from Asheville, N.C., to Fargo, N. Dak., the nomadic Lambs of Christ have focused attention on themselves and their targets with now familiar tactics. Whenever possible, they will enter an abortion clinic, or at least blockade it. Using heavy Kryptonite bicycle locks, they chain themselves to concrete blocks or automobile steering wheels and then go limp, making it difficult for police to remove them. When arrested, they usually refuse to give their names -- and they are more than willing to do jail time since that puts a financial burden on local law-enforcement systems. The Lambs...
...FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, GOT OUT of the cable-television business after running up $235 million in losses over seven years. Shutdown costs -- including severance packages for the 400 employees of Monitor Television who were laid off -- will run another $45 million. While church officials search for a buyer for the cable operation, the Monitor Channel will broadcast reruns. The channel managed to attract about 4 million subscribers before its demise, a bantamweight entry in the cable ring compared with the likes of the Discovery Channel, which has upwards of 57 million homes...