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Former Bush Counsel Charged In Conn. With Trying To Kill Wife After She Sought Divorce JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN January 7, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An attorney who worked in both Bush administrations was charged Thursday with trying to kill his wife by beating her with a flashlight and choking her two days after she delivered divorce papers. John Michael Farren, 57, was arraigned on charges of strangulation and attempted murder and ordered held on $2 million bail. His wife, Mary Farren, was beaten so severely Wednesday night at their New Canaan home that she was at points knocked unconscious...

[T]he departing rector of St. John's Seminary sent blistering letters to church officials, alleging the Archdiocese of Boston is endangering the training of priests by letting theological liberals move in next door. Rev. John A. Farren, a conservative and occasionally controversial Dominican friar, warned the "doctrinal integrity" of St. John's is at risk because of increased proximity to two Jesuit-run institutions, Boston College and Weston Jesuit School of Theology, expected to move into buildings currently held by the seminary. [Both] are considered liberal institutions open to a wider range of theological views than St. John's. Under Farren's leadership, several members...