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All this is a bold (some would say rash) American-based program to open up the election process, which is wreathed in secrecy. If Popes were Presidents, of course, such publications would be routine. One does not "run" for Pope, however, and a Cardinal who even appears to do so...
The Sheed dossiers combine straight biographical facts with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is...
Grandier (Nicholas Pennell) is the sexiest of priests and the soul of romantic ardor, whether consoling widows or initiating virgins. He is also witty, proud and urbanely condescending, almost courting enemies low and high. The highest, Cardinal Richelieu, has him brought to trial, at which he is condemned and burned...
Objects for acidulous social criticism can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The hand belongs to Edward Sorel, a chiaroscuro cartoonist in the merciless tradition of Daumier and Thomas Nast. With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop...
Cardinal Borella. It is easy to imagine Borella blithely exchanging a dispensation for a substantial "offering" earlier on in the book. But it seems vaudeville villainy when the Sicilian prelate, learning casually about young Brady's connection with Robert Kennedy's investigation, warns the Mafia in Boston.