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Why Catholics should use preferred gender pronouns and namesNames play an important role in the Catholic tradition. At the celebration of baptism, the first question posed to the parents is "What name do you give this child?" At confirmation, it is customary for the confirmation candidate to select and embrace the name of a patron saint. Many members of religious congregations adopt a new name as part of their religious profession, even when their "legal" names (on government documents like birth certificates) do not reflect it. Clergy and religious alike take on new titles and appellations such as "Father," "Sister,"...

VIDEO of an Irish dancing protestor. What he is protesting, I have NO idea. Michael Flately has no need to worry about this step dancing JERK (see comment #1).

Who Undercut Ambassador Horan? Correspondence To the Editor: Your tribute to Ambassador Hume Horan was moving and richly deserved. He was a man of extraordinary decency, integrity, and ability. The only sentence in the piece with which I'd quibble is the one that reads, "Horan's clash with State Department Arabists ended in his recall from Saudi Arabia." I had the privilege of serving under Ambassador Horan in Saudi Arabia at the time in question and can attest that there was no clash with State Department Arabists. Arabists at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh at the time were shocked and angered...

On Oct. 22, 2002, Montgomery County bus driver Conrad E. Johnson was getting ready to begin his morning route in Aspen Hill when he was shot in the abdomen. Johnson died later that day at an area hospital. Two days later, authorities arrested Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad as suspects in the region’s sniper shootings. Authorities combed a wooded area near the Aspen Hill shooting and found ballistic evidence linking the crime to the alleged rampage of the suspects. Most media outlets treated the story cautiously, reporting that the suspects had worked as a team in the alleged...

<p>FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- A judge rejected defense arguments Monday that Virginia's death penalty law is unconstitutional and barred cameras in the courtroom for the trial of teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo.</p> <p>Malvo's lawyer had argued that the instructions given to a jury on when to recommend the death penalty are too vague.</p>

<p>FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Lawyers for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo challenged the constitutionality of Virginia's death penalty law in court papers filed Wednesday. They also asked the judge to rule graphic crime scene photos inadmissible, grant access to evidence and regulate the number of deputies who will guard Malvo in the courtroom.</p>

The Free Lance-Star CHARM, GUILE MAKE EBERT A DEADLY FOE Using country charm and legal guile, Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert has sent more men to death row than any other prosecutor. By KARI PUGH Minutes after announcing capital-murder indictments against sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the man most likely to send one of them to death row skipped town. Prince William County's top prosecutor slipped away "to the country" for the night--leaving a dozen reporters from around the world clamoring outside the courthouse and his voice mail clogged with 108 unanswered messages. "I've...

<p>FAIRFAX, Va. — With another set of indictments returned against the sniper suspects, Attorney General John Ashcroft said officials are weighing who has the best evidence to deliver the "ultimate sanction" — death.</p> <p>A Virginia prosecutor says he is satisfied he has the evidence to immediately try John Allen Muhammad and 17-year-old John Lee Malvo. The two were charged with murder Wednesday in the Oct. 14 slaying of an FBI analyst in Fairfax County.</p>