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Orthodox priest/bartender in trouble for gossip
Nelu Marin, a parish priest in Albesti, Ialomita, Romania, is also a bartender at the local pub. Now he's in trouble for allegedly spilling secrets told to him in the confessional to his customers, including who's having affairs with whom, who's having sexual dreams, and who's cheating financially. He's also accused of beating a child at the local school, then telling the complaining parents to kiss his, uh, backside, saying, "Even that is holier than you!"

Indianapolis Baptist Temple holds Sunday services
The U.S. Marshals Service still hasn't showed.

Strange assertion of the day ...
The Daily Record of Scotland today has an article what would appear to most readers as a breakthrough in biblical scholarship: "Scotland's patron saint St Andrew was crucified because a convert went on a sex strike, a new study claims." The article quotes liberally from environmentalist scholar Alastair McIntosh, and says his study "is the result of re-piecing together fragments of the second century writings, the Acts of St Andrew, lost for nearly 1000 years." Maybe Weblog is missing something significant about this story, but The Acts of St. Andrew, an apocryphal, Gnostic text from the third century at the earliest, has been available for quite some time. And the story about Maximilla refusing to have sex with her husband, a Roman proconsul named Aegeates, can be freely read by anyone. It's nice to see Christian history—or at least pseudohistory—in the news, but frustrating to see credit go where it doesn't belong.

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November (Web-only) 2000, Vol. 44