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- <text id=91TT1577>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: Men Who Lie About Nuns!
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 69
- Men Who Lie About Nuns!
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- <p>By Alexander B. Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> His stock-in-trade is sifting through sinful confessions,
- but PHIL DONAHUE was on the wrong side of a scandal last week.
- In a syndicated essay about his Catholic upbringing, the
- good-guy talk-show host made up phony names for the nuns he
- fondly recalled and included a copy of a faked missal
- inscription. Not exactly a mortal sin, but after a Catholic News
- Service reporter blew the whistle, enough to force Phil into the
- confessional. "I changed the names of the nuns to protect the
- innocent," he said. Donahue's heart was in the right place,
- though: proceeds from the essay will benefit elderly nuns.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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