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Introduction According to former Benedictine monk and psychotherapist-writer Richard Sipe: In 2004 a reliable source of information about the Catholic Church made me aware of document about the American hierarchy that was composed by a small group of insiders including at least one bishop. That document claimed and named 134 bishops that they said were homosexual in orientation or behavior.

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Dravecky raised some eyebrows that month when he appeared with Eric Show and Mark Thurmond at a John Birch Society booth at the Del Mar Fair. Back home in Boardman, his parents were stunned. His father said, “Well, it’ll ruin his career.” Yet most people remembered the Padres’ Bircher contingent as “Eric Show and those other two guys.” Upbeat where Show was moody, reserved where Show was outspoken, Dravecky was little tarnished by the controversy. By Victor Dighe, June 15, 1995 | Re...

Bradley is an animated woman of 36, whose tousled long black hair and French accent give her an exotic cast. When I acknowledge her accent, she replies, “Yes, I’m sorry, I’m from France,” an apology for her country, which has been thrown in the gutter by some Americans for not supporting the war. Her husband, a weapons officer, is aboard the Constellation in the Persian Gulf. Bustling through the warehouse, she shows me how overstuffed it is with household goods. “There’s too much,�...

Teer says that he started smoking sherm when he was 16. "I used it a lot. I used a lot of drugs, but the older you get, the less fun it gets. Smoking a sherm is kind of like huffing paint times 20 for eight hours. I would smoke it at school. Wed sit in the back of the room, all shermed out. When I was locked up [in jail], I knew some guys that had it. The whole tank had it.” By Robert Kumpel, May 30, 2002 | Read full article “Most of the time when I was doing meth, we were always eating fas...

Le Travel Store sells luggage, travel equipment, and books from its Gaslamp Quarter store on Fourth Avenue. Owner Joan Keller believes the 9/11 attack nearly destroyed the travel industry. "It was immediately devastating. When you hear that travel has come back, it really hasnt come back in any sort of adequate way. Its still way down. What I read in industry media is that there are 25 percent fewer airline seats sold, and our business is down 25 percent." By Robert Kumpel, Sept. 5, 2002 | Read...