Word: christiane
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Another prominent candidate is Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 67, who leads the office on relations with non-Christian religions and is the most widely traveled member of the college. If the next Pope is chosen from outside Italy, at least a possibility now that 27 of 117 voting cardinals are non-Italian, Holland's shrewd primate, Jan Cardinal Willebrands, appears to have a clear edge. With two decades of experience in the Vatican Curia, he knows the Italians well...
...property, affiances his daughter (Swoosie Kurtz) to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery in a seduction scene made hilarious by Tammy Grimes. This is madness, as Moliere knew. As he also must have known, it is a disturbing, distorting mirror image of Christian divestiture - giving away all worldly goods, cutting one's closest human ties to achieve a holier state of grace...
...earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank the Absolute out of there and into the light, God pale and astounded, spraying a spiral of salts...
...wonder and intensity. Sometimes she is ostentatious, as in her description of the Pacific coastline, "the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam." But at their best, Dillard's sentences have a clean, penetrating edge. "The higher Christian churches," she writes, "come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism. . . as though they knew what they were doing ... If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute." Henry David Thoreau...
Adler is Jewish, and a Jew in this rural, tribal and fiercely Christian heartland is a wanderer indeed. There were Jews in Savannah well before the turn of the 19th century - George Washington's letter of good wishes to the city's Jewish congregation dated 1789 is the book's epi- graph - but most of those Adler meets feel that they remain in Georgia on the most precarious kind of sufferance. Their prudent rabbi has eliminated Hebrew from most of the ritual, and their new temple, Adler notes wryly, lacks only a cross to make it indistinguishable...