1.   A reconfigured entrance to the parish house, at sidewalk level, will make it far easier to enter both buildings.

2.   Brennan is one of about a half-dozen priests who live in the parish house, which is connected to the cathedral by several passageways.

3.   But the church also sponsored a local Cub Scout pack, a small group of first-graders who met in the parish house behind the church.

4.   Located in the parish house, where community events were held, the main dining room is on a former basketball court.

5.   Political gunmen controlled the area and its people, many of whom would come to the parish house looking for a meal, a job or medicine.

6.   The apartment house was demolished, and the parish house remained boarded up Thursday.

7.   The sleek tower houses a bell that once graced the parish house of St. Agnes Chapel, which had formerly occupied the very site of the new middle school.

8.   Zwilling said that Brennan and Thayer left the parish house shortly after speaking to detectives Thursday morning.

9.   Police said he apparently was beaten during the attack because they found drops of blood at the entrance to the parish house.

10.   A homeless man who sleeps in a crime-ridden park near the parish house saw the man, he said.