His best-selling 1981 novel, "The Cardinal Sins, " contained erotic passages concerning a prelate and a married woman.
"It was a bitter pill to swallow, the government admitting that they needed the church, " says Archbishop Wenski, the Miami prelate.
The prelate said that although there were indications that the FARC was behind the killings, "we are not certain of that, " El Pais said.
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Jeffrey Steenson, a prelate based in Houston, Texas, watching from St.
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The newish Archbishop of Canterbury has strayed into unusual territory for such a senior prelate, which is to make some proposals to mend the banking system and British economy.
Vallini, who is the pope's vicar to the Rome diocese, is the prelate who greeted Francis and who, along with city hall, decided a part of St.
The most reverend prelate, Dr Rowan Williams, continued: "At the present moment the position of Christians in the region is more vulnerable than it has been for centuries".
Out of Charlotte, indeed, the Lord raised up not only a mighty preacher of his Word, but also something like an All-American prelate, a modern version of a Prince of the Church.
If the future Archbishop of Canterbury insists on the covenant, bits of the communion may reject the arrangement whereby an English prelate chairs the global fraternity, says Frank Kirkpatrick, an American Episcopalian priest.
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The Pope has also publicly praised an Italian prelate, a recent newcomer to the College of Cardinals, 70-year-old Milanese Biblical scholar Gianfranco Ravasi - thus, according to Vatican insiders, endorsing him as a possible successor.
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Joe Robertson, a commodities trader in his 60s heading to Mass in New York, said he was taken aback by the swiftness of the vote for the 76-year-old prelate, whose name he said he couldn't pronounce.
"I can't think of any instance in which a current Catholic prelate -- and that would include bishops and cardinals -- restricted or, in this case, promised to restrict their predecessor, " said Clohessy, who has spent 24 years monitoring sex abuse allegations against priests.
Its senior Orthodox prelate, Archbishop Anastasios, a scholarly figure with a deep knowledge of Islam, has been raising money from western churches to help the Kosovo refugees, and will use this weekend's Orthodox Christian Easter celebrations to pray for all victims of ethnic hatred.
As we scan the crowd, our gaze is akin to that of the costumed characters on the viewing platform at right, but quickly shifts to eye level as the foreground gives way to some of Ensor's most frightening and crudely painted figures a top-hatted skeleton, a swollen prelate, ghoulish clowns, and grimacing, disembodied masks who threaten to spill into our space.
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