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...others in the Boston area were upset with Medeiros for having crossed the line between church and state. When Worcester's Monsignor Leo Battista and 29 other Catholic clergymen asked Drinan to withdraw his endorsement of Frank, the priest refused. He warned the hierarchy that it risked damaging the church by involving itself in the race. Said he: "The authority of the church in parts of this district is dreadful...
Something is wrong with the crucifix. Hanging in the tiny church in a Virginia country town, it distresses the new pastor. The wooden corpus, Monsignor Vincent Shepherd observes, has "square, unsuffering eyes" that symbolize to the priest so much that is wrong with his church and his world. The sense of crucifixion is gone. Instead, he reflects, "it was as if Christ had never really suffered and died, but had only had the Last Supper, with twelve smiling men of social commitment and three folk guitarists, and then knocked the stone away from the tomb...
Bausch suggests that the Monsignor's conversion may have to be a journey away from the priesthood to the fatherhood of the forlorn Bexley family. It is a measure of this fine first novel's catholicity - with a lower-case c- that the choice seems almost irrelevant. In or out of the collar, this Shepherd seems at last to have found his calling...
...Monsignor Bryan Walsh, director of Catholic Charities in Miami, testified at the hearing that some 15,000 Haitians already in the U.S. have been waiting for up to seven years to know whether they can stay as political refugees. So far, he said, only 50 have been granted that status. Actually, Immigration officials estimate that during the same period, perhaps as many as 30,000 Haitians have slipped into south Florida in small boats, although many have not filed formally for admittance...
...Monsignor O'Brien highway, one of the nearby streets police closed off, only an occasional emergency vehicle sirened by, heading toward the source of the white cloud...