Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category

“Exorcist” priest Walter H. Halloran, 83

Posted: Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 12:57 pm

WAUWATOSA, Wis. — The Rev. Walter H. Halloran, a priest who took part in an exorcism that spawned the book and movie “The Exorcist,” has died at age 83.

He was the last living Jesuit who assisted in the exorcism in 1949 at a psychiatric unit in St. Louis. He died Tuesday night at a Jesuit retirement home in suburban Milwaukee. … Read full obituary


Anti-gay crusader Pete Knight (R-Calif.), 74

Posted: Monday, May 10th, 2004 12:52 pm

California state senator William J. “Pete” Knight, who sponsored the state’s same-sex marriage ban and took it directly to voters after twice failing to get it through the legislature, has died of leukemia. He was 74. …

Knight’s son, David Knight, married Joseph Lazzaro, his partner of 10 years, at San Francisco’s City Hall earlier this year, just two days before the California supreme court halted the weddings. … Read full obituary