Word: dubliner
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...found a way to flout it that the Vatican could not ignore. The tussle began last spring, when Rome learned that the resident of the Mount St. Benedict monastery in Erie, Pa., had agreed to address the first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept of obedience" forbidding Chittister to attend...
...treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself to be complicit" in it. Several other female Benedictine monasteries added their support. Thirty-five of Mount St. Benedict's younger nuns pledged that if Chittister were punished, they wanted to share her penalty. Chittister flew to Dublin and in an act of nervous bravado told the crowd, "We're not going to let a little letter from Rome get us down." There were no ordinations...
...knew he liked to play a game called Go. It's an ancient Oriental game, sort of like chess, and I found out on the Internet where the Go clubs were in Europe." One was in Dublin, Ireland, one of Einhorn's first stops. He and his new girlfriend rented an apartment from a Trinity College professor named Denis Weaire. When Weaire visited friends in Chicago in April 1981, he told them about this mysterious character named Einhorn. His friends thought the name rang a bell; they called newspapers and got the full story. Weaire evicted Einhorn, but Irish police...
...Either Flodin had married the Dublin book dealer, or, more likely, DiBenedetto suspected, she had married Einhorn, and he had changed his name to Mallon...
...Einhorn. The man's name was Ben Moore, and she was his landlady, nothing more. DiBenedetto didn't buy it. She was attractive, and her family had money - the Daily Double that Einhorn lived for. Flodin moved to Denmark three years later, then disappeared, leaving the address of Dublin bookseller Eugene Mallon. "I knew the name," says DiBenedetto. And he knew that Einhorn was once a customer of the bookseller...