John XXIII got away with it because he said it was in deference to his parish saint, John the Baptist, Melloni said.

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But Father John Cunningham, a Taunton parish priest, said that the councils "should leave well alone".

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Our guest, Father John Barkemeyer, left a parish on Chicago's South Side to become an Army chaplain in 2003, the year U.S. and coalition forces invaded Iraq.

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Measurements taken early this week showed the hole measured 324 feet in diameter and is 50 feet deep, but in one corner it goes down 422 feet, said John Boudreaux, director of the Office of Homeland Security in Assumption Parish, about 30 miles south of Baton Rouge.

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The line up included the event's most successful competitors ever, John Cannel and Derek Harrison who between then had won no fewer than 11 Parish Walks.

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At a special service led by parish priest the Reverend Kathleen Rogers and the Bishop of Bangor the Rt Rev Andrew John, a pink candle was lit for April.

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