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...Sure, for all the jokes, this is not unvarnished candor - even Archbishop Edward Egan urged them to keep hold of "whoever is writing your material." And without the Rorschach questioning of a Jim Lehrer or a Bernard Shaw (or the good undecided people of St. Louis), the civic urgencies of the day (the ones on which we're all supposed to be casting our vote) went unaddressed...
...complaining that because of his condition, he "could not concentrate on a subject for any length of time without having to worry about his ideas getting terribly confused." He was ordained in 1819 on condition that another priest always be present when he celebrated Mass. By 1827 he was Archbishop of Spoleto...
DIED. ROBERT RUNCIE, 78, outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1980s who criticized Margaret Thatcher and angered Prince Charles and Diana by recounting private conversations with them to his biographer, and whose efforts to improve relations with Rome led the Pope, in 1982, to pray with him in the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170; in Hertfordshire, England...
...Coles' office walls bear images of RFK--as well as those of labor organizer Cesar Chavez and Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed by El Salvadoran military...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNOR, 80, Archbishop of New York and the Vatican's leading U.S. spokesman; in New York City (see Eulogy, below...