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...major initiatives. The issue also arose last month, when the African bishops' symposium issued moral denunciations of governments that are built upon lies, intolerance, political murders and "shameful enrichment of a small class at the expense of the broad masses." Above all, a Pope must continue to exemplify the anguish of Western Christians over the suffering of the world's poor ?as Paul did so eloquently?whether or not he is able to find a new way to address the birth control problem...
...Pope he inherited a revolution, then wrestled with it in spiritual anguish...
Paul became a study in anguish-wanting reform but fearing the consequences of too much too fast, trying to please progressives while placating conservatives. He said yes to more changes than any Pope since the 16th century Council of Trent: a thoroughgoing revision of liturgy, a streamlining of the Curia, an unprecedented rapprochement with other faiths. But his no could be emphatic and crucial: no to any genuine sharing of power with his fellow bishops, no to married priests, no to the ordination of women, and no-a still-reverberating no-to artificial birth control. The late Jesuit Theologian John...
...success means nothing to me," Willie said not long before he died, in one of the many cries of anguish that fill this book. "All I can think of now are my mistakes. I can think of nothing else but my foolishness ... I wish I'd never written a single word. It's brought me nothing but misery...
...flashes of Breslin's brilliance, particularly in the searching descriptions of the various blue-collar, Budweiser-and-Yankees neighborhoods that witnessed Berkowitz's first attacks. In fact, Breslin--who received several letters from the killer, both before and after his capture--was in an ideal spot to portray the anguish and frustration of searching for, and being taunted by, a man who quite accurately referred to himself as "Mr. Monster." And when the book deals with the killings in Forest Hills, an overly-affluent neighborhood in Queens Breslin now calls home, the writing understandably gains power, seeming less...