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...nature of his opposition and the link between the left and the conservative clergy. In the old days it was hard to believe that a Catholic priest could become a Communist, but then it could happen that a Communist would get an order to go and become a Catholic...
...record seemed to show a man of prudence and patience, a scholar with a certain sense of humor, a priest full of humility and candor. But how would the Cardinal's qualities prove out when tested by the intricacies of church policy? During his years in Venice, parish priests found him open-minded, but unwilling to budge a millimeter when doctrine was at stake. "He is a hardliner on orthodoxy," says the religion editor of Venice's leading daily. Luciani has been hostile to the worker-priest movement and to many workers' Communist attitudes, but has defended...
George Sheehan, a New Jersey cardiologist often called the "high priest" of running, is archetypical. In Dr. Sheehan on Running he promulgates the notion of the runner as a special subspecies of human, a person gifted not only with better lungs and heart but with superior spirituality. Alas, superiority carries penalties. Sheehan feels the runner is specially susceptible to the meanness of an envious society. "Why," he asks, "is the runner a lightning rod for the anger and aggression and violence of others?" And Sheehan answers himself: "The runner puts himself above the law, above society. And men in gangs...
Since True Runners run, as the high priest Sheehan puts it, "not because we feel better but because we don't care how we feel," it is surprising that such spartans have even felt the backlash. Yet the September issue of Runner's World gives over an entire page to an elaborate whine about those who have begun to "dump on running." And the premier October issue of The Runner similarly devotes a whole page to a feature column, "Biting the Backlash." In it, Runner-Writer Colman McCarthy mourns that his fellow treaders "are being knocked, mocked...
also binds in Luciani's love of music. He especially admires the works of a Venetian baroque master, a priest named Antonio Vivaldi...