Word: confessor
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...love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears in his undershirt looking flagrantly virile. When Ramiro proposes to her, she spurns his suggestion as "distasteful." When he rashly tries to force himself upon her one morning, she flees to her confessor, a plain-spoken priest who advises Tula to stop being proud and foolish: "You do his laundry, you make his bed. It's only natural that he wants to marry...
...diocese and probably never will. Belgian Monsignor Joseph Cardijn was founder of the worldwide Young Christian Workers movement, a pioneer in theologically exploring the role of the layman in the church. Monsignor Charles Journet of Fribourg is a respected ecumenical theologian. Father Giulio Bevilacqua was the Pope's confessor during his seminary days, but now serves as pastor of a poor church in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Bevilacqua assured his parishioners that he would continue to wear his plain black cassock, stay on as their parish priest...
...Cartier, 86, Manhattan jeweler, grandson of the founder of the Paris original, who was sent across the Atlantic in 1907 to mine the U.S. market, quickly established himself as the purveyor of gems to America's rich and famous, displaying 24-carat charm, matchless discretion ("We are the confessor of our clients"), and some of the world's most dazzling baubles, among them the famed Thiers pearl necklace, purchased by Cartier from the Louvre in 1924 for $760,000; of uremia; in Geneva...
...American Activities Committee, is stage and film director Elia Kazan (this act ruptured for some years the close friendship between Miller and Kazan). Ludwig Reiner, the confidant whose name Maggie invokes from time to time, is patently Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors' Studio and Marilyn Monroe's father-confessor...
Mrozek's fantasies, not always political, are often enigmatic, and frequently most haunting when most bizarre. A housewife has trouble talking about marriage troubles to a priest confessor because he can think only of adultery, and her secret is that she has just discovered her handsome spouse is made entirely of plasticene. "An annulment, Father?" she says, when he finally offers advice. "But we have three children...