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  The Priest Hole - History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Priests were exiled and forbidden under pain of death from returning or performing the sacraments.
Wealthy families built hiding places, "priest holes", in their homes to hide priests in case their homes were raided by the secret police.
There is some speculation whether the priest hole in the floor of the Kelsick Hall is in fact nothing of the sort, but certainly there are many such in the North of England, where people clung to the old ways.
www.thepriesthole.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /history.htm   (1113 words)

  
 There's a Hole in the Pentagon
Yes, a priest for the soul that's the feast in the bowl of the beast in the hole in the Pentagon.
There's a priest whose sole goal is the soul, just deceased, that's the feast, eaten whole, in the bowl to the East of the beast they control in the hole (one, at least) in the Pentagon in Arlington.
Yes, a scroll for the priest of the soul that's the feast in the bowl of the beast in the hole in the Pentagon.
www.freemars.org /filk/pentagon.html   (609 words)

  
 Priest hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A priest hole is the term given to hiding places for priests built into many of the principal Roman Catholic houses of England during the period when Roman Catholics were persecuted by law in England, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I.
In December, 1591, a priest was hanged before the door of a house in Gray's Inn Fields for having said Mass there the month previously.
Laws against seminary priests and "recusants" were enforced with the greatest severity after the Gunpowder Plot episode during James I's reign.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Priest_hole   (590 words)

  
 Cape priest suspended amid police inquiry (October 8, 2003)
Joseph's in Woods Hole is a friend of murder suspect, who was a church handyman.
FALMOUTH - A Woods Hole priest has been removed from his duties because of his connection to the investigation of a local man's murder.
This is the second priest Coleman has removed from duty since becoming the Diocese of Fall River bishop in July.
www.capecodonline.com /special/sexregistry/capepriest8.htm   (515 words)

  
 Priest indicted on theft charges (March 9, 2005)
BARNSTABLE - A former Woods Hole priest now faces criminal charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from a local church and five counts of filing false income tax returns.
The Rev. Bernard Kelly, 73, former pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole and Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet, was indicted by a Barnstable County grand jury yesterday after a 16-month investigation by Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe's office.
Kelly is the only priest to be accused of stealing in the diocese's history.
www.capecodonline.com /special/sexregistry/priestindicted9.htm   (608 words)

  
 Priestriver.org, your information source for Priest River, Idaho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Priest River Museum and Timber Education Center offers new exhibits four times a year, and also houses the Priest River Chamber and Tourist information office.
The Priest River Experimental Forest is located 13 miles north of Priest River on the Peninsula/East River Road.
The Experimental Forest was established in 1911 as a center of forest research for the Northern Rocky Mountains, it continues this role under the administration of the Rocky Mountain Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.
www.priestriver.org /attractions.html   (587 words)

  
 The Priest Plays Golf a Golf Joke at Jokes.Net
One Saturday the priest was shooting a great round, when he came upon the eighth hole.
The priest enraged by this flub in an otherwise perfect round takes out his sand wedge, bends it over his knee, and hurls it at a tree.
The priest ignoring them continues with his game and manages to turn things around so that by the time he is at the eighteenth hole he is shooting almost as good as his personal best.
www.jokes.net /priestplaysgolf.htm   (411 words)

  
 The Memory Hole > Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on Pedophile Priests
The priest stopped only when the girl was able to ring for a nurse.
• A priest told a 12-year-old boy that his mother knew of and had agreed to the priest’s repeated rape of her son.
“Priests don’t do that,” said the father as he punished his son for what he thought was a vicious lie against the clergy.
thememoryhole.org /religion/philly_pedo-priests   (920 words)

  
 Sacramento Mexican American Golf Association (SACMAGA)
He comes up to the 17th hole, a long par 5 with a large oak tree in the middle of the fairway.
At the green on the first hole, the atheist, lines up for a short two-foot putt, taps the ball, and the ball slips around the edge of the cup and does not go in.
On the second hole, the atheist tries a particularly aggressive chip shot to get the ball onto the green and instead lands in a sand bunker.
www.360soccer.com /sacmaga/humor2.html   (1450 words)

  
 The Timeshare Beat: The Registry Collection® Luxury Exchange Program Adds The Residence Club at Priest Lake to its ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Residence Club at Priest Lake is in phase one of construction with seven of the 12 residences currently completed and ready for occupancy.
Priest Lake is surrounded by 523,000 acres of Idaho State and U.S. Forest Service recreational lands that are home to a wide variety of wildlife and recreational facilities.
All owners of The Residence Club at Priest Lake are enrolled as members of The Registry Collection and have access to a portfolio of spectacular resorts in some of the world’s most exciting destinations.
www.thetimesharebeat.com /2006/jan/0124-05t.htm   (461 words)

  
 Barton upon Humber
For years he had told us that he suspected that there was a Priest Hole in Baysgarth House.
We all believed that there might well be a priest hole and decided to investigate.
Using one of our mother's clothes lines we lowered ourselves into the "priest hole" and recorded the event with camera and flashbulbs before departing.
www.bartonuponhumber.btinternet.co.uk /Stories/priesthole.htm   (354 words)

  
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But many priests risked their lives to come back and minister to the flock and many lay Catholics likewise risked their lives and fortunes to hear Mass and have their children baptized.
Wealthy families built hiding places, called priests’ holes, in their homes to hide priests in case their homes were raided by the secret police.
The police had obviously received a tip because they went right to the fireplace where the priest’s hole was located.
www.catholic.net /the_liturgical_year/print.phtml?article_id=377   (816 words)

  
 Graymilken Mill By MoonHunter
It has a number of "priest holes", places where a person can be hidden and not found during a search.
The presence of priest holes and the secret tunnel imply a far greater amount of information than we are given leading us to ask questions.
Other smaller palces (called holes) became artfully contrived hiding-place, not only for the officiating priest to slip into in case of emergency, but also where the vestments, sacred vessels, and altar furniture could be put away at a moment's notice.
www.strolen.com /content.php?node=1483   (719 words)

  
 The Curt Jester: Priest-hole builder and saint
Besides using the aliases of Andrews and Draper, impersonating a priest, and being a jailbird, Nicholas was aiding and abetting outlaws from the English government.
The priest who wrote it was ordered by his Jesuit superiors to leave England after the gunpowder plot.
There are several stories about the "priest holes" and a dramatic escape from the Tower of London.
www.splendoroftruth.com /curtjester/archives/007148.php   (1093 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A priest in the local parish decided he was going to take up golf and then one of the nuns in the adjacent convent thought this could be fun and offered to caddy for him.
Once on the course the priest drove the first shot into the woods and exclaimed "Oh Shit I missed".
On this hole the priest knocked it into the water and of course issued his now familiar refrain.
home.inreach.com /rgierak/jokes/golfpris.htm   (170 words)

  
 Bishop Accountability
Cops probing the slaying of an aspiring Falmouth golf pro are eyeing the relationship between a sexual predator accused of the killing and two priests, one of whom rented an apartment to the alleged murderer and once counseled a rapist who later killed two women.
FALMOUTH -- Authorities believe that the Roman Catholic priest who was abruptly removed from his parish this week had a sexual relationship with Robert R. Nolin Jr., the convicted child rapist accused of murdering 20-year-old Jonathan D. Wessner on a Falmouth beach late last month, according to a source with knowledge of the homicide investigation.
The Rev. Bernard R. Kelly was pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Woods Hole until Tuesday, when Bishop George W. Coleman of the Catholic Diocese of Fall River suspended the 70-year-old Kelly "due to the seriousness" of his role in the murder investigation and Kelly's apparent refusal to cooperate with authorities.
www.bishop-accountability.org /ma-fallriver/FallRiver-2003-10-pt1.htm   (11565 words)

  
 Hindlip House, Worcestershire
Hindlip House was perhaps the most famous example of the quality and ingenuity of the work of the master priest hole builder, Nicholas Owen.
During these years, as priests came and went, Nicholas Owen was called on to build hiding holes within the confines of the house.
Bromley declared he knew she was hiding priests, but because of her connection to Monteagle, who had uncovered the Gunpowder Plot, he was forced to tread very carefully.
www.gunpowder-plot.org /houses/hindlip.htm   (1385 words)

  
 revolution: nun jokes
A priest goes out golfing with a nun as caddy.
The next hole, the priest hits the ball way to the left.
On the next hole, the priest hits the ball into a sandtrap.
www.boogieonline.com /revolution/express/religion/humor/nuns.html   (176 words)

  
 LEXX
Stanley excitedly recalls that President Priest declared him to be the King of the place and pulls the written charter out of his pocket.
Signed President Reginald J. Priest." That's good enough for Stanley, so he decides that they'll take a detour from their intended trip to Transylvania, and drags Xev and Kai down to visit his 'subjects'.
He doesn't recognize the language and Kai explains to him that it is the lost language handed down by his ancestors, as a chant sung while going into battle expecting to die.
www.geocities.com /the_lexx2001/The_Rock.html   (2485 words)

  
 (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There is, it seems a secret network of such priests across the country, smuggled in by cover of darkness and hidden in the homes of the believers who have risked everything to bring them here.
I now had what was known as a priest hole, but of greater pride to me was the fact that I had a priest to go in it.
He came to the point in the mass where I would be part of the transfiguration, the moment when he would offer unto me the blood and body of Christ in the form of bread and wine, as our saviour had done at the last supper.
www.gv2010.com.cob-web.org:8888 /horror/horrorpiece.asp?id=71   (2942 words)

  
 Om Sai Mandir :: Articles :: The Power of Naama Smarana
The priest prostrated to the sage and inquired about the welfare of all, including the Lord.
When asked about what the Lord was doing at the present moment, Narada replied, “The Lord is passing an elephant through a needle’s hole.” The priest burst into uncontrollable laughter and ridiculed Narada for making such a statement.
Narada again made the same statement: “The Lord is passing an elephant through a needle’s hole.” On hearing this, the cobbler’s eyes were filled with tears of joy.
www.omsaimandir.org /faith_in_god.cfm   (754 words)

  
 Ranch Club Golf and Pizza House A fun, friendly 9-Hole experience in Priest River, Idaho
Play 9 or 18 holes, throw back a few or have a great meal in our restaurant.
The town of Priest River is on the southern tip of the loop.
Priest River began as a timber town in the 1800's and is currently undergoing a wonderful revitalization.
www.ranchclubgolfcourse.com   (324 words)

  
 Golf Jokes (Section 6)
As they stepped up to the tee on the first hole, a beautiful par four of 425 yards with a slight dogleg right, the aide explained to the General that he had to hit the ball to the flag.
The pro walked to the hole with them and looked at the ball on the green and then the ball in the hole.
This law does not expire on the 18th hole, since it has the supernatural tendency to extend over the course of a tournament, a summer and, eventually, a lifetime.
www.golfersdream.com /golf_jokes_6.htm   (3365 words)

  
 Catholic World News : US fugitive priest takes flight in Italy after court approves extradition
Aug. 04 (CWNews.com) - An American priest who faces child-molestation charges in Arizona has gone into hiding, after a court in Italy, where he has been living since 2003, authorized his extradition.
On July 27, Italy's top court ruled against the priest, paving the way for his return to face the charges.
While it is admirable that they protect a priest not yet convicted, it is disgraceful they have continued to hide him after thirteen chilldren have accused him.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=45703   (318 words)

  
 BuzzMachine:
One quibble: spider holes were/are used by soldiers as fighting positions.
The hole from which Saddam was hauled might be better referred to a "priest hole", which was used by persons hiding from the authorities.
Not to put too fine a point on it, I believe the most accurate term for Saddam's hiding place would be 'shit hole'.
www.buzzmachine.com /archives/005453.html   (179 words)

  
 Kidnapper's farm to be sold
The bunker, or "priest hole," was built by anti-Semitic preacher Gordon Winrod as a place to hide his kidnapped grandchildren if law enforcement approached.
When authorities raided the home and arrested Winrod in 2000, the children locked themselves in the priest hole and didn't emerge until Winrod persuaded them.
Evidence of the standoff lingers in the priest hole.
www.rickross.com /reference/winrod/winrod7.html   (1022 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At a short, par 3 hole the priest asks, "What are you going to use on this hole son?" The young man replies, "An eight iron, father.
How about you?" The priest says, "I'm going to hit a soft seven and pray." The young man hits his eight iron and puts the ball on the green.
The priest, well he doesn't fare so well.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/bs16/Golf/golf_prayer.txt   (111 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg - The Priest Driven Ambulance Album, Demos and Outtakes: Music: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And the two-disc set "The Day They Shot A Hole In The Jesus Egg," a compilation of early work, outtakes and demos from 1989 to 1991, is a must-have for the die-hard Lips fan.
But "In a Priest Driven Ambulance" is a true gem; not only their best early work, but one of their best altogether.
Though their aptitude for bizarre melody had been brusquely exerted on tracks from Ow My Gawd the Flaming Lips and some parts of the cacophonous feedback symphony of Telepathic Surgery, it is here that the band began to intersperse their sense of musical competency.
www.amazon.com /They-Shot-Hole-Jesus-Egg/dp/B00006GSFF   (2061 words)

  
 Eucharist and Priesthood born during Last Supper, Holy Thursday homily, St Margaret of York, Eucharistic Martyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
No matter what type of good work a priest does the highpoint of the priest’s ministry is celebrating the Eucharist.
By now the Clitherows had three children, the oldest was studying in France to be a priest, and when Margaret was taken away from her home that day and thrown into prison her two younger children never saw her again.
Subsequently the young boy went on to become a priest and the young girl a Sister.
www.frtommylane.com /homilies/holy_week/holy_thursday.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Cape priest tied to slaying probe
FALMOUTH - A Woods Hole priest with ties to alleged killer and convicted sex offender Paul R. Nolin Jr.
The Rev. Bernard Kelly, 70, of St. Joseph's parish in the Woods Hole section of Falmouth, was placed on leave Monday pending the outcome of an investigation into Jonathan Wessner's death, spokesman John Kearns said.
Wessner's body was found last week on a rocky beach in Woods Hole.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/10/08/cape_priest_tied_to_slaying_probe   (331 words)

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