21.   Legal or not, many priests said the survey was a pure means of achieving the necessary goal of preventing sexual abuse.

22.   Later, after his son died, said the priest, the father began to doubt that he should have encouraged his sons to grow up to be firefighters.

23.   Local priests say that the bishop pressed their strapped parishes to turn over icons, robes and silver chalices.

24.   Many of the words the priest says are exactly the ones the military command likes to hear.

25.   No one had called them, the priest said.

26.   One New York priest said clergymen felt as conspicuous as police officers after the Amadou Diallo shooting.

27.   Outside the blood-spattered parish room where Hutu soldiers murdered seven priests and eight nuns, one Tutsi priest says he opposes replacing the exiled and dead clergy.

28.   Priest said several Arkansas legislators had contacted her after Election Day, inquiring about tighter state election regulations.

29.   Priest said there was a thin line between making it relatively easy for people to vote absentee so as not to disenfranchise them and guarding against fraud.

30.   Priest said that the secretaries of state began holding conference calls with each other as the election recount unfolded in Florida in November.