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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