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Since his installation nearly three months ago, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin has barnstormed his new archdiocese, the largest in the nation. He has called on Polish parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma...
...impoverished Lithuanian parents who immigrated to Cicero, Ill., Archbishop Marcinkus had enjoyed a steady rise in the Vatican hierarchy before the scandal broke. After taking a degree in canon law at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, Marcinkus joined the Vatican's State Secretariat in 1952 and soon caught the eye of Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, who was to become Pope Paul VI in 1963. The new Pontiff made the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), burly American cleric part of an intimate circle of papal advisers. In 1964 the Pontiff selected Marcinkus, a born organizer, to be his advanceman...
...archbishop-banker had previously enjoyed an unusually successful career in the Catholic Church. Born in Cicero, Ill., he attended a Chicago seminary and was a parish priest before going to Rome in 1950 to study canon law. Once there, he started working his way up the Vatican hierarchy by serving as a diplomat. His administrative skill, as well as his commanding height (6 ft. 3 in.) helped him land a job as bodyguard and advance man for Pope Paul...
...catalyst for all that follows is the fatal heart attack of Leonard Strickland, a gentle North Carolina lawyer fond of Montaigne and Cicero. After 40 years of his benign companionship, his widow Nell doubts her ability to go it alone: "He protected me from so much ... from my harshest judgments of myself as well as of others." Strickland's death also catches his two daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this...
...would be nice, especially if we put it away early so they can get the place cleaned up in time for the Head of the Charles. I'm also hoping Tony and Pat, my two biggest roommates, are around in case some guys with beer in one hand and Cicero in the other come knocking. After all, it's Dartmouth weekend and nobody is safe...