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Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to jail and gets his license suspended rather than tell the police anything about his own highly personal family affair. When the master detective has finally cracked the case, he settles back to "read books, drink beer, discuss food...logomachize with Archie." He asks a listener, "Shall I iterate and reiterate...
...writer in the U.S. Catholic press has been a more sulfurous advocate of rightist views in recent years than Jesuit Priest Dan Lyons, 55. He fought the cold war long after most Catholics had thawed. He attacked modernists, the Berrigan brothers and the liberal Catholic press. In 1970, when liberals were agitating for the right to marry and remain priests, he wrote: "The Church decided long ago that the celibate priest is more like Christ...
Last week Lyons' voice was suddenly silent. He had turned in his last columns to the National Catholic Register and Twin Circle (combined weekly circulation: 162,000), left his Manhattan office and headed west. Days later, he walked into the Portland, Ore., headquarters of his Jesuit superior, the Very Rev. Kenneth Galbraith, and stunned him by asking for a leave of absence, with the intention of ultimately seeking release from his priestly vows. After all the dropouts in recent years, "I thought I was through with being surprised," says Galbraith, "but I was surprised...
Editor Stung. One Jesuit stung by Lyons' defection is a fellow conservative, Father Kenneth Baker, editor of the Homiletic. Last week confusion reigned as Baker quit and killed the October edition just as it was about to go to press. Said he: "With his going off and leaving like this, it doesn't make any sense for me to continue...
...nearly a century, thousands of American Catholics had prayed and worked for this moment. Canonization would mean that Mother Seton was "the first American girl who 'made good' according to God's exact standards," Jesuit Writer Leonard Feeney once observed. Whatever God's standards, those of the Catholic Church are strict indeed. Vatican officials had sifted and sifted again through more than 3,000 letters and other writings by Mother Seton to assess her character and deeds...