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Painting priest finds God in abstract 60-year-old leads Catholic church’s Ministry of Arts POMONA, Calif. (AP) — There’s no steeple out front, no rows of pews inside, not even so much as a crucifix on display. Still, this cramped little art studio in the middle of what, until not very long ago, was a street with as many broken dreams as it has potholes, is the closest thing to paradise Father Bill Moore has found. It’s the place where the 60-year-old Catholic priest serves God by creating abstract paintings that he sells by the hundreds. No ordinary preacher, Father Bill, as he’s known throughout Pomona’s fledgling arts district, long ago discarded his clerical collar in favor of a painter’s smock. Only
on Sundays does he trade it for holy vestments to deliver Mass at a local church or one of several detention facilities for youthful offenders. All other times Moore is head of the Ministry of the Arts for the West Coast branch of his religious order, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. His job is to serve God by painting whatever comes to mind. “That’s Bill’s gift, his talent, and we have to support that,” says Father Donal McCarthy, who is the order’s West Coast provincial and Moore’s superior. “When you’ve got a creative person, you shouldn’t stifle that creativity.”
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and ’don’ts’ on pat-downs, including barring screeners from touching female passengers between their breasts. The TSA hasn’t publicly released that list. But a report by the Government Accountability Office, which said federal investigators were able to smuggle liquid explosives and detonators past security at U.S. airports, appeared to cause some changes last year in patdown policies. In one instance cited in the report, an investigator placed coins in his pockets to ensure he’d receive a secondary screening. But after a pat-down and use of a hand-held metal detector, the screener didn’t catch the prohibited items the investigator brought through a checkpoint. The TSA last year decided to permit what it describes as “enhanced pat-downs” that include breast and groin searches. But these could be done only after the use of metal detectors, less invasive pat-downs and all other tools had been exhausted.
rushing to catch a flight. In fact, most travelers at U.S. airports never get a pat-down when they pass through security. A metal detector must be set off first and then screeners would need to find out what triggered the alarm. That often amounts to screeners just lightly tapping on a passenger’s arms, legs and clothes. But even if they go ahead with a pat-down, it likely would not turn up something nonmetallic, small and well-hidden. Unlike the frisking of suspects conducted by police — which involves officers running their hands firmly up and down the body, including sensitive areas like the groin, buttocks and breasts — the pat-downs at airports usually involve, well, patting down. A flood of complaints by women, including one by Lynch, led the Transportation Security Administration in 2004 to list ’dos’
Leaders of the order, founded more than 200 years ago in France, know of no other member whose only mission has been to paint. But then Moore, a child of the ’60s who can quote the words of Jim Morrison and Jesus Christ with equal facility, has been a barrierbreaker since he ignored his provincial’s order his freshman year of college to study either philosophy or theology. He majored in art instead. “The next year, a letter came from the provincial saying all the students are now encouraged to major in subjects of their choice. I thought that was very cool,” Moore recalls with a smile as he sits in the
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HONOLULU — President Barack Obama is reviewing reports from homeland security officials as his administration tries to determine what U.S. policy and personnel failures preceded the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing. Intelligence officials, meanwhile, prepared for what was shaping up to be uncomfortable hearings before Congress about miscommunication among anti-terror agencies and sweeping changes expected under Obama’s watch. Democrats joined a chorus led by Obama in declaring the government’s intelligence procedures in need of repair. Among them, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said that when the government gets tipped to trouble as it did before a
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lobby of his modest studio sipping coffee. A copy of underground comic-book artist R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis” sits on the coffee table and works by Japanese artist Kazumi Tanaka (a personal favorite) are displayed. Moore decided a dozen years ago that abstract expressionism would be his language. That has caused some consternation among his order, like the time he was commissioned to do the stained-glass windows for St. Anne’s Church in Kaneohe, Hawaii, and proposed a series of abstract Photo courtesy Ellen Austerer Gallery works. “The pastor there said, Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest, serves the church by ’That’s not going to hap- painting whatever he likes as part of the Ministry of the Arts for his order. pen,”’ Moore recalled.
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23-year-old Nigerian man boarded the Northwest Airlines jet with explosives, “someone’s hair should be on fire.” One senior administration official told reporters traveling with the vacationing president: “The failure to share that information is not going to be tolerated.” The official, like others involved in the reviews, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence discussions. The Senate Intelligence Committee announced Jan. 21 hearings as part of an investigation to begin sooner. “We will be following the intelligence down the rabbit hole to see where the breakdown occurred and how to prevent this failure in the future,” said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, top Republican on the committee. “Somebody screwed up big time.”
Firefighters battle 19 pet pythons
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Crews responding to a trailer fire in southern Utah had another factor to contend with: snakes. Kristeen Checketts, the animal control officer in St. George, says there were about 19 pet pythons in the trailer when it caught fire Thursday morning at an RV park in town. Once the fire was put down, Checketts and firefighters began pulling out snake after snake, most in cages and some up to 18 feet long. Checketts says 11 survived. The snakes’ owner tried to revive another by massaging it and blowing into its mouth through a plastic pipe. Fire Capt. Jason Whipple says the accidental fire started with a heat lamp in one of the snake cages.
Rick Warren asks for budget bailout
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Evangelical pastor Rick Warren appealed to parishioners at his Orange County megachurch Wednesday to help fill a $900,000 deficit by the first of the year. Warren made the appeal in a letter posted on the Saddleback Church Web site. It begins “Dear Saddleback Family, THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER.” “With 10 percent of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated,” the letter reads. Still, Warren said the church managed to stay within its budget, until “the bottom dropped out” when Christmas donations dropped to less than half of usual levels.