"Verbatim."."What the hell happened? Why am I not dead?" --David Prueitt, upon waking from a coma after an attempt at doctor-assisted suicide in accordance with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. He lived for two more weeks. (Religion News Service, March 9, 2005) "Finding him determined, I said that if there were really no alternative to my death, could I be allowed to pray? He drew the knife back and let me pray." --Iraqi Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa Basile Georges Casmoussa (born 25 October, 1938) is the Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq. He was, according to Vatican records, born in Iraq. Casmoussa was ordained as a priest in June 1962 and worked for three decades as the editor of Christian Source , on his abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. by insurgents who were going to execute him but changed their minds (Catholic News Service, Feb. 23, 2005) "Without the pope, we don't work. We don't make any sales on Wednesdays and Sundays because there are no audiences. You've got to have the pope!" --Remo, a trinket-seller near St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, on the pope's extended illness (Reuters, March 2, 2005) "Because each case of possession is different, each person possessed is different." --Father Giulio Savoldi, Milan's official exorcist ex·or·cism n. 1. The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising. 2. A formula used in exorcising. ex  or·cist n. , on a new course for exorcists at the Athenaeum ath·e·nae·um also ath·e·ne·um n. 1. An institution, such as a literary club or scientific academy, for the promotion of learning. 2. A place, such as a library, where printed materials are available for reading. Pontificium Regina Apostolorum, a university in Rome (BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, Feb. 17, 2005) "We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing." --Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, at a press conference launching the U.S. bishops' new campaign to end the use of the death penalty in the United States (Reuters, March 21, 2005) |
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