Word: gers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet; others are completely covered with ugly open sores. Smiling gravely, the priest greets them all, clasping some to his breast, kissing others, lifting the children high in the air until they giggle with delight. Thus begins a day in the life of Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger, 65, prince of the Roman Catholic Church, confidant of three Popes and 14 years the Archbishop of Montreal...
Seventeen months ago, Léger, an urbane and scholarly prelate who was among the leaders of the progressives at the Second Vatican Council, gave up his see to work as a missionary in Africa (although he retained his personal title of Cardinal and can vote in papal elections). In a rare interview, he talked about his austere life to TIME Correspondent James Wilde. "I am alone here," he said, "completely dependent on others, trying to make them all forget what I am. Yes, I am alone, and many people are slightly afraid of me. I don't belong...
...ger first thought of working in Africa in 1960, when he came across a newspaper story about conditions of life in the leper colonies. Three years later, between sessions of Vatican II, he spent a month touring the continent. "Africa was a revelation to me," he recalled. "All those crowds, all those children. I was moved to think of the words of Christ, 'You must love each other as I love my Father and as I am loved by my Father.' " Four years later, during the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Léger kept thinking about...
Outranking Diplomats. Unfortunately, Léger's dramatic gesture has not worked out quite as well as might have been expected. Although he originally lived full-time at the leprosarium, Léger now maintains a modest home at Nsimalen, 70 miles away, and his visits to the hospital are less frequent than they used to be. That may be just as well. "His Eminence says prayers for the lepers," dryly notes the prelate responsible for Nyamsong, French-born Bishop André Loucheur of Mbam. "He conducts services and says Mass. But he doesn't do anything medical...
...original budgetary needs of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Kennedy and other Democrats decided that the time had come to rebel against the Senate's Pavlovian habit of slashing non-defense appropriations while passing military spending bills unscathed. The grim testimony presented to the "hun- ger committee" proved the validity of that position...