Word: miter
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...once entertained a delegation of visiting New York police by stalking into a tavern, miter and all, and ordering a round of beer for his guests; another time, after blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, he vaulted aboard one ship and asked the captain to sail him home to Boston. At amusement parks he buys candy kisses for nuns and shamelessly employs a rather widely used gag as he tells them that "they're the only kisses you'll ever get." Hardly a day goes by that Boston Catholics can pick up their papers without seeing...
...broken and the pieces buried with John's body. To those in the room, Aloisi Masella spoke the ritual words: "Vere Papa mortuus est [The Pope is truly dead]." He then signed a formal certificate of death, and Vatican clerics dressed the body for its final appearance: golden miter, white alb, crimson and gold gloves, chasuble, buskins and slippers. In John's hands was placed the tiny black crucifix he had held in his final hours. The bells of Rome's 540 churches pealed out a requiem across the city...
...arranged as a hall of justice: in it an office worker, satanic in black robes, buys the illusion that he is a judge and cruelly extracts a confession of a prostitute (Ruby Dee). A second chamber is arranged as a chapel: in it a gas-meter reader, in miter and chasuble, buys the illusion that he is a bishop and lovingly receives a confession of a prostitute. A third chamber is arranged as a stable: in it a milkman, bristling with chest lettuce, buys the illusion that he is a cavalry general and prepares to mount his whorse...
Looking as if he had just stepped from a niche in an old cathedral, Pope John XXIII, 81, in miter and brocades attended canonization ceremonies for three new saints in St. Peter's Basilica. Later in the week, appearing at an audience for 1,200 (his first since his recovery from anemia), he entered the Vatican's Clementine Hall briskly, but accepted help in mounting the three steps to the golden throne. Cheerily expressing the hope that he would be around to see the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council before Christmas of 1963, he said: "One year...
...sight of the 100th Archbishop, who this week begins a 23-day tour of the U.S. A huge, shambling man, with fierce tufts of white hair and shaggy eyebrows jutting from his massive head, Arthur Michael Ramsey, 57, looks constantly at the ready to don cope and miter for the crowning of a Queen or the intonation of a weighty pronouncement. "When you see him in the Abbey, enrobed and preaching on Christmas, he and the church are one," says one of his vicars. "He is the church...