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Businessmen solicit prostitutes. Muggers attack worshipers as they pray. Homeless mothers sleep in pews. Pilferers raid donation boxes. One man senselessly destroys a revered icon.
For Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, the story had a nostalgic resonance. Bonfante was assigned to Rome in 1978 when, he remembers, "I covered three Popes in a single year: Paul VI, who died in August; John Paul I, who lived only 34 days; and John Paul II, the...
It had lectured to dozens of divinity students. It had delivered hundreds of sermons to the ranks of Harvardians sitting in Memorial Church pews. The voice had even taken part in the inauguration of Presidents Bush and Reagan.
Members of the Class of '92 streamed into Memorial Church yesterday for the Commencement baccalaureate service, filling the pews and even the balcony floor.
There has been little apparent pattern to the fires, which have struck at a variety of denominations and at churches with both black and white congregations. A few days after the Gainesville fire, Florida police arrested an ex-convict from Chattanooga, Tenn., on charges of loitering in the area, but...