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...police that Terry had committed suicide and that he had buried her body, but he refused to say where. Instead he handed his interrogators two sheets of paper. One contained a crude map with three rough drawings of what could be outlines of countries. They were marked by Roman numerals. The other listed what looked like obscure chess moves...
Brennan, an Irish Roman Catholic and Democrat, was plucked from the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1956 by Dwight Eisenhower, who hoped that the nomination would help undermine Democrat Adlai Stevenson's liberal challenge to his bid for a second term. Three years earlier Eisenhower had appointed Warren, the Republican Governor of California. He later pointed to Warren and Brennan as two of the "biggest mistakes" he had made...
...more the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. has grown in recent decades, the more crippling has become its shortage of priests. In 1966 the American Catholic population was 46 million. At that time, the number of priests available to offer the sacraments was some 59,000, or approximately one priest for every 780 parishioners. Today there are 57 million Catholics and 53,000 priests, or one priest for every 1,100 parishioners. One result is that more than 1,000 parishes now have no priest at all. Last week two sociologists published research predicting that the crisis will only...
...stage with Farrakhan was the other fringe minister, George Stallings Jr., excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, accused pederast, founder of his own ersatz Catholic Church called the Imani Temple. Stallings marked his entry into the political arena with the declaration that Barry, "the greatest mayor this city has ever had," was brought low by a racist government because he is "too intelligent and too black...
...world's most powerful Germans lives in Rome. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 63, is prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and thus guardian of church orthodoxy for 900 million Roman Catholics. It is said that Pope John Paul II makes no important decisions without consulting Ratzinger, who was born in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria. Conservatives are grateful to have the brilliant theologian as an ally in the Vatican; liberals like to suggest that he stands to the right of Torquemada...