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...Brazil, a mild-mannered Franciscan friar awaits a ruling from Rome over possible "theological errors" in his latest book, Church: Charism and Power, published in 1981. In the book, Theologian Leonardo Boff attacks the "monarchic and pyramidic" structure of the Catholic Church, which, he says, inevitably aligns the church with the rich. Father Boff wants the pyramid of power turned upside down, so that "the church would be, not for the poor, but by the poor...
Boff's escort underlined the delicacy of the meeting, and perhaps even signaled to the Pope the need for compromise in dealing with the liberation theology issue. In Boff's case, the Vatican's concern was that if the friar took a defiant stand, he might gain further support from important elements of the Brazilian church, turning a disciplinary action into a no-retreat showdown...
...deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other's arms at dawn...
Smith, who played forward on the fourth line, did better as a defenseman on a mid dash power play. Just as the interference penalty to Peter Taglianetti expired. Smith gloved down a clearing pass at the Friar blue line and slapped it off Proulx's blocking glove and into the twines for the go-ahead goal...
Down by one, the home team cranked up its barrage of slapshots, mostly off the stick of Taglianetti. Soon after Smith's goal. Blair made two difficult saves against the hard-hitting defensemen on a Friar power play. With 20 seconds to go in the period. Taglianetti came close again, and left wing Steve Rooney lifted the rebound over the cross...