61.   Jose Mantero is a parish priest in a southern Spanish town, Valverde del Camino, well liked by his flock and on good terms with his bishop.

62.   Last July, four teen-age boys who ran away from a group home were arrested and charged with slashing a parish priest in Queens.

63.   Mass was served by the Rev. Tom Vengayil, parish priest at St. Jude Roman Catholic Church in Jupiter, who said the family requested that services remain private.

64.   Meet Dale Earnhardt Jr., the nicest, humblest stock-car driver this side of a parish priest.

65.   On the day before Margarita Martinez was elected mayor of the small town of San Francisco last month, someone shot and killed the parish priest.

66.   On the other hand, Vevey said, parish priests are often cooperative.

67.   One layperson from each parish, chosen by the parish priest, will get to attend the meeting with the cardinal.

68.   One of his schemes involves a greyhound in which he and the parish priest share an interest.

69.   Other Bronx residents, from children to parents to parish priests, reacted to the reported remarks on Monday with anger, bemusement and knowing smiles.

70.   Parish priests find many local authorities still unwilling to allow processions on the feast days of saints.