As he told me the story, anger and hurt welled up inside him.
Sources said that the timing of the AP story angered President Obama, prompting the Justice Department to start asking questions about law enforcement leaks to the press.
He tells these stories with anger, and shame, then explains that his prayers are intended as a way to offset his sins.
He is a short man with a warm, easy manner and boundless enthusiasm, laughing, popping up to answer the door, narrating stories with anger, tears and agitation.
Obviously unfamiliar with being filmed and recorded, they were reticent at first, but as they began to tell their stories, their anger added a clear sense of urgency to their messages.
The basic elements of these stories — the anger of the god; the man who is warned of the flood, fashions a boat, seals it with pitch, and invites some other species aboard; the washing up on a mountaintop, the dispatching of scouts in the form of birds — are familiar to anyone who has read the biblical story of Noah.
It'll be another child that will learn how to create stories and anger, because mom was single, and dated all the wrong men.
I interviewed Lombardi, now an award-winning investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, for my forthcoming book, Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Anger and Hope.
In the 18th century, a Frenchman further embellished the story, in anger at the Church, by claiming that the Pope had "excommunicated" the comet, though this story was most likely his own invention.
