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Envoy of Charm. When her husband lost his post as prefect in Brussels, she composed her charms and went to Napoleon. He "placed his beautifully shaped hand on my arm" and she went home with the prefecture of Amiens. Sitting on a sofa next to King William I of The Netherlands, she assiduously promoted the diplomatic career of a son-in-law. She knew Great Men in her time, from the Duke of Wellington to Alexander Hamilton, and she leaves a delicate but firm impression that none of them-kings and emperors included -was quite safe in her company...
John Cardinal Wright, the American prefect for the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, believes that frustration is the key word. Frustration, Wright explains, affects many kinds of religious: the lonely missionary who is deprived of the "sufficient means" for his job, lacking books for his school or medicines for his hospital; the alert young curate who fears his views are not being heard or heeded by a national hierarchy top-heavy with...
Schell's chief qualification was his experience last year as senior prefect of the Class of 1969. The other twelve trustees. however include corporation presidents, college administrators, and distinguished alumni...
...only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last week. "The Pope is meeting us more than halfway." Cardinal Wright was appointed to succeed Villot as Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, a job that grows more sensitive as the clergy grow more restive...
...down at breakfast, the newspaper clippings and reports in front of him have been prepared and organized by Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. When there is a sudden crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, the man who rushes to the papal chambers with the message is Archbishop Benelli. When a cardinal prefect of a curial congregation wishes to see the Pope, his appointment is arranged-or postponed-by the same Benelli. And when President Richard Nixon helicoptered into St. Peter's Square two weeks ago, who was there to greet him officially but Giovanni Benelli...