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"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" is the motto of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. The motto is supposed to represent the club's edict against doing business during its annual Bohemian Grove retreat, which commences on Thursday on 2,700 acres, 75 miles north of the city. As club spokesman and member Sam Singer explained, "It's a group of gentlemen who are really genuinely interested in arts, theater, jazz and rock 'n' roll." The retreat gives members a chance to "get away from work. It's forbidden to talk about or solicit business at the club or grove." The "weaving spiders" motto also provides...

Fr. Kyle Schnippel  Other Articles by Fr. Kyle Schnippel Printer Friendly Version   Why Does the Catholic Church Ordain Only Men to the Priesthood? Part One February 25, 2007 With the recent illicit ordination by dissident Archbishop Milingo in New Jersey of two married men to the priesthood, and the repeated attempts by several women's groups to ordain women, most recently upon a boat on a river in Pittsburgh, the question of who has a 'right' to the Sacrament of Orders has been a heated topic of late.According to Catholic Church theology, however, no one has a 'right' to...

<p>Posted on February 25, 2003 Southern Trace Country Club of Shreveport is indeed a "public" facility under the law, but the men-only policy in the club's Men's Grille does not violate the state constitution, a Caddo district judge ruled Monday.</p>

<p>Nearly three years of legal wrangling over who is allowed into what some claim is basically the extension of a locker room could finally come to an end in a Caddo Parish courtroom Wednesday.</p> <p>That's when the fate of a "men only" policy at the popular Southern Trace Country Club Men's Grille will be placed into the hands of Caddo District Judge Roy Brun.</p>

<p>From the Be Careful What You Wish For Dept.: Augusta National members tell SI that among the new additions to the club are Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who had been campaigning for membership for years. No doubt Gates's progressive, latte-sipping Seattle social circle will be thrilled that he has joined the world's most notorious boys-only club. South Carolina football coach Lou Holtz was also extended membership privileges. "Go 'Cocks!" as they say around the National.</p>