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AnecdotesRock my Soul

In May 2003, two years after his appointment as Abbot Primate, Notker Wolf, the 62-year-old head of more than 25,000 nuns...

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TriviaTrivia about Sounds Bad, Misunderstandings and Journalism

Pastor Aghast At First Lady Sex...

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AnecdotesLost Reverend

One day early in his career, Billy Graham arrived in a small town to preach a sermon. Hoping to run some errands first,...

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AnecdotesMonks of Nashdom

"At the beginning of the war," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "the monks of Nashdom were evacuated to the Girl`s School...

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AnecdotesVernacular

Duke Borso once sent a letter in Latin to the mayor of an outlying village ordering him to catch a...

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AnecdotesDivine Assumption

After fracturing both of his knees in a nasty fall, Richard Trench (the archbishop of Dublin) lived in constant fear...

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AnecdotesPearly Gates

Stephen Girard`s will endowing Girard College in Philadelphia stipulated that under no circumstances were clergymen to...

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AnecdotesJerry-Pot

"As vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "I found myself custodian of the Martyrs`...

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AnecdotesDodgy Defense

Ben Jonson was known for his fiery temper. "There is no arguing with Johnson," Oliver Goldsmith once remarked, "for when...

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AnecdotesYoung Bruce Springsteen: Butcher, Baker, Booty Shaker?

Bruce Springsteen`s mother, who thought her young son should become an author, was not impressed when he announced his...

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