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Military dictatorships generally are less efficient than those run by lone despots or the clergy.
Richard Gorman of a coalition of priests and local residents battling an incursion of hot-bed motels in their Bronx neighborhood, "We have a very active clergy, but we're not a bunch of ayatollahs."
Wait, sorry, it was Iranian Shiite Muslim clergy who jailed the kids; I keep confusing Tehran and New York.
Black was worn by mourners and the clergy, by civil and domestic servants, and by the poor as Sunday best.
It is even said that he has a "woman problem," which supposedly finds expression in his defense of church positions on an all-male clergy, contraception, and abortion.