"They weigh their own credibility against what is often a very popular, charismatic priest and they think, 'I don't have a chance.' "

Thousands of Poles today attended a funeral service for a popular priest who was found dead in his rectory over the weekend, apparently a murder victim.

Assigned to St. Mary's parish in Philadelphia, he proved himself a popular priest.

The local inhabitants wanted the popular priest and nationalist politician Andrej Hlinka to consecrate their new church.

Here, a popular priest was riddled with machine-gun fire at the gates of his order's motherhouse.

But the parishioners longed instead for the return of a popular white priest who had served them for more than two decades.

He then entered the church and soon became a popular priest, rising to become a canon.

Officials at that church said they did not know of any problems and that he was a popular priest.

Vetri puts the pieces back together and uncovers a plot by Zinda to assassinate a very popular priest, when he went to visit the singer.

At St. Catherine's, he established himself as a popular priest who was skilled in presenting moving sermons.