Word: priestly
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Cardinal Frings himself saw to it that the Pope got the memo, which was signed by 15 prelates. "You can be sure that it didn't go through the Secretary of State," said one priest. "There are other ways to get to the Pope-not many, but a few." One way that the cardinals had not counted on was a press leak. Acting on his own, Chilean Journalist Gaston Cruzat, head of the Latin American bishops' press panel, released the memo's contents to Rome reporters...
Amid this confusion, Volpe would stand silent, angry, and detached. Adoring order, he shows little patience with indecision or vacillation. Each morning, no matter what the circumstances, he attends Mass. Nearly every afternoon he stops the campaign caravan to visit a local priest. At four o'clock every day he insists on drinking a large frappe and reading the Herald-Traveler. His whole life seems one long constitutional, and he lives it not as a mundane routine but as a stoic and invigorating regimen...
...same net, FBI men in New York had snared Ivan D. Egorov, 41, a member of the United Nations Secretariat, and his wife Aleksandra. They too were charged with espionage but were later swapped for the return of two Americans held by the Soviets - Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek and Marvin W. Makinen, a Fulbright scholar from Asburnham, Mass. Was there another swap in the wind...
Newspapers call him "High Priest Harry" and "Little Hitler," and a writer who has been trailing him around for years says, "You really have to know Harry Hopman to dislike him properly. You've heard of bad losers? Harry is a bad winner...
...whole, the new novel is disappointing. Moses E. Herzog, teacher-scholar, is everybody's door mat. Things happen to him; he does nothing. He is tossed out of his own home by his wife and her lover. He is bullied by lawyers, psychiatrists, cops, a priest and friends. At the beginning of the novel, he is at least dashing off undelivered letters to all sorts of people, living and dead, who have offended him. At the end, he gives up even that. He is unfit for the rough-and-tumble of the world, he acknowledges, because he was "brought...