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...Catholics in the west to win. Both Drinan and Mason have that kind of appeal. Drinan has earned a reputation in Congress as a liberal maverick, fighting against the Vietnam War and defense appropriations, and pressing for the impeachment of President Nixon. But Drinan is also a Catholic priest, so he usually runs strong in Catholic areas...
...relishes doing his own dirty work. Says one federal official: "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death." Dellacroce is a master of disguises. Known throughout the Mob as "Mr. O'Neill," he often donned priest's garb on his troubleshooting assignments for Gambino, earning his other name, "Father O'Neill." Dellacroce's men -undisguised-were at the motel meeting. They said nothing. They didn't have...
Died. Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 84, former archbishop of Bologna, regarded by some Vatican watchers in 1963 as a possible successor to Pope John XXIII; in Bologna. As a parish priest in Genoa during World War II, Lercaro aided anti-Fascist partisans and refugees. As archbishop of Bologna (1952-68), he organized a group of young priests into the frati volanti (flying friars) to speak out at public rallies against the local Communist government. Lercaro also supported Vatican II reforms such as the vernacular Mass and argued that the church should end its "cultural colonialism" toward non-Europeans, especially in Africa...
...meeting in protest against the killing of a 13-year-old neighborhood boy by a British soldier's plastic bullet, Williams and Corrigan were shouted down, pummeled by an angry mob and driven to seek sanctuary in a nearby church. While the terrified women were comforted by a priest in the Holy Trinity sacristy, youths smashed their cars...
...doctrine James Fadgen, then 30, a Pittsburgh teacher, invoked when he discovered that his wife Bonnie, 26, was sleeping with George Lenkner. His suit asked for compensatory and punitive damages of an unspecified amount. The case aroused more than casual interest because Lenkner, 31, was the Roman Catholic priest who had presided at the Fadgens' 1972 marriage. When a Pittsburgh court found in Fadgen's favor, Lenkner appealed. The state supreme court, in a 3-to-2 decision this month, avowed that it holds "the institution of marriage in the highest regard," but added that "rapid legal...