Obituaries
The Rev.
Sept. 2, 2012
World & Nation
Sun Myung Moon dies at 92; led controversial Unification Church
Sept. 3, 2012
South Korean immigrated to the U.S. and became the wealthy leader of an unorthodox religious movement that was labeled a cult and featured mass marriage ceremonies.
Religion: Zambian cleric’s marriage, links to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon had scandalized Catholic officials.
Aug. 15, 2001
It’s not every day that a onetime federal tax cheat gets an ornate crown placed on his head in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington before an audience of more than 300 while he explains that Hitler and Stalin, whose souls he claims to have posthumously redeemed, view him as the new Messiah.
June 24, 2004
The founder of the Unification Church, the Rev.
July 20, 2008
The renegade Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican after he installed married priests as bishops acknowledged that the Rev.
Dec. 10, 2006
July 3, 1985
A Roman Catholic archbishop who says God wants him and the Catholic Church to shed the celibacy rule married a physician in a group wedding conducted by the Rev.
May 28, 2001
Rev.
Sept. 26, 1989