This would appear to support a claim by Musa Sadr's son last August that his father was still being held captive (if it's true, the cleric would be 83 next month).
In a rare interview, Agha Jan Motasim, who was finance minister in the Taliban regime, said statements issued in recent years in the name of the insurgent leader Mullah Omar have not reflected the fugitive cleric's true views.
In true movie priest fashion, this Irish cleric offers patience and understanding rather than judgment and disdain.
The same was true in the 1990s under the "pragmatic cleric" the world was promised in Hashemi Rafsanjani.
"That is the true jihad," said Abu Moussa, an Isis-affiliated religious cleric, echoing Naji's text.
A young cleric approached and offered his view that true pilgrims were those who met three conditions — they went first to the cathedral, participated in Holy Communion and prayed for the pope.
A chaotic neutral cleric may not worship a lawful deity.
After the mayoral election, he was forced to apologise for saying Sadiq Khan had associated with a Muslim cleric who supported the terror group Islamic State, which was not true.
Khomeini imposed a doctrine known as wilayat al-faqih (rule by the jurist) under which the final arbiter of political power should be the cleric best qualified properly to understand (that phrase again) the true meaning of Islamic law and tradition.
There were lighter moments during the long service - one cleric gave thanks to Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku for giving information "whether true or false".
