Catholic Priest

On August 28, 2004, ELIZABETH ELLEN (nee Carter) age 97 1/2; devoted mother of George E. Milbert; dear mother-in-law of Bonnie Milbert; devoted grandmother of Tyson Milbert and his wife Tracey and April Young; devoted great-grandmother of Nathaniel, Brandon and Ashton. Also survived by other loving relatives and friends. Elizabeth is preceded in death by her husband, Edward Milbert and her brothers, John and Robert Carter. Announcement will be made for a Memorial Service at a later date.

Nation of Islam leaders' incendiary remarks about whites, Jews and the pope should be understood in their historical context and compared with the Roman Catholic Church's vitriolic attacks on Jews in the 15th century, a Catholic priest said inBaltimore yesterday."

It's 1993, more than two decades since the Black Panther Party, which disbanded in the 1970s, advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government; since a radical civil rights lawyer and his clients, known as the Chicago Seven, turned a courtroom into a theater of protest; since a Roman Catholic priest and nun were arrested and imprisoned for their anti-war/anti-nuclear activities.It's 1993 and MTV has as its slogan "The music revolution will be televised." Fashion designers are creating $1,000 versions of hippie garb.

They had finally touched down at Dulles International Airport in Virginia by way of Ireland at 3 a.m. Sunday. Their Aeroflot plane was delayed 16 hours in Moscow and their polite cheerfulness barely masked jet lag.But by yesterday morning, as they met with Archbishop William H. Keeler in the rectory garden at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 27 young Russian Roman Catholics on their way to Denver to pray with Pope John Paul II already knew that Baltimore differs...

A Gaithersburg priest who was put on administrative leave from his parish after a controversial funeral Mass at which he denied Communion to a lesbian said in a statement Wednesday that he "did the only thing a faithful Catholic priest could do" and suggested that archdiocesan leaders and the woman were lying. The Rev. Marcel Guarnizo had declined to comment publicly since the Feb. 25 Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, where Barbara Johnson was mourning her mother. Having learned just before the Mass that Johnson, a 51-year-old D.C. artist, was a lesbian living with her partner, Guarnizo refused to let her receive Communion.

A prosecutor told the jury members they would hear evidence in a simple case involving trespassing and malicious destruction of property. But peace activist Philip F. Berrigan turned yesterday's case against him and three co-defendants on charges of damaging two jet fighters last December into a sermon about the perils of nuclear war and his commitment to world peace. Berrigan, 76, of Baltimore, is being tried with three other peace activists: Susan Crane, 56, also of Baltimore; the Rev. Stephen Kelly, 50, a Jesuit priest from New York City; and Elizabeth Waltz, 33, a Catholic Worker from Philadelphia.

One-Sided NewsIn regards to an article, ("Lawsuit accuses priest of sexually abusing teen"), March 12, we are once again led by the news media to character assassination with allegations of sexual misconduct of a Catholic priest. This seems to be the popular thing to do these days.Why do you think it is your right and duty to report a one-sided allegation concerning a Catholic priest, but sanctimoniously refuse to name the accuser, claiming, "The Sun does not name victims of alleged sexual abuse"?

IT'S NOW nearly four years since Baby Doc, Jean-Claude Duvalier, drove himself at high speed to the airport to board a U.S. Air Force plane to exile in France, ending 30 years of sordid dictatorial rule by himself and his father, Francois.Today Haiti prepares for a presidential election December 16 that could be the occasion for the final catharsis of the Duvalierist era -- or could lead to its resurrection.The two most talked-about candidates represent on the one hand all that was violent, underhand, corrupt and cruel in the Duvalier era, and on the other the hope Haiti has never satisfactorily fulfilled in its 175 years of independence -- to be law-abiding, democratic and working to lift the worst poverty in the Western hemisphere.

Thanksgiving Night By Richard Bausch HarperCollins / 403 pages / $24.95 Father John Fire, pastor of St. Augustine's church, tries to talk Mr. Petit out of killing himself. Petit, the high school vice principal, points the gun at the 72-year-old Roman Catholic priest, who is his confessor, and tells him to leave his office. "I -- I haven't heard your confession," the priest says. "Forgive me, Father, I'm intolerably alone. ..." "You will give me that gun and walk out of here with me."

In the wake of Vatican plans to make it easier for Episcopalians to become Catholic, the Episcopal bishop of Maryland would like to make one point clear: The door swings both ways. Lost in talk of the splintering of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton says, is the appeal that the 45,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has held for former Roman Catholics and others looking for a big-tent church. While attention focused on the conversion en masse last month of a Catonsville-based order of Episcopal nuns to the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has received three former Roman Catholic clergy in the past couple of months, Sutton says.