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...Minute Conclave. The names of the two tying candidates were written on pieces of paper and dropped into a tarboosh. Father Paul W. Romley of Pittsburgh, a young American priest who does not read Arabic, drew one name. Out came the name of Moawad, and the pro-Soviet candidate was out of the running. Said one pro-Western prelate later: "The decision was left...
...born there 63 years ago, but he almost did neither; once, discouraged by low grades at Boston College High School and worried about family finances, he almost quit school to find a job. But with his blacksmith father's encouragement, he stuck it out to become a priest-and those early bad grades were soon forgotten. He was a bishop at 43, and an archbishop at 49, when he succeeded Boston's autocratic old William Cardinal O'Connell...
...mother rushed into the room, her arms filled with flowers, her eyes filled with tears. Then came his sister, the burgomaster, the scores of well-wishers from all over the bustling (pop. 14,000) city of Huy, Belgium. At first, the slender, 48-year-old Dominican priest could scarcely believe the news: the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had just awarded him the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize. "I'm too young." Father Georges Pire protested. But an hour and a half later, he sent off his acceptance: "Say thank you to Norway, whose heart has replied so splendidly...
Graves's theory is that the first four chapters of Genesis were written by a priest living in Jerusalem after the return of the Jews from exile in Babylonia. His priestly narrator was familiar with pre-exilic creation stories, and he used a set of Mycenaeo-Edomite pictorial tablets "given to, or taken by, Joshua's invading Israelites when they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from...
...gala flotilla of gondolas, and Cardinal Roncalli welcomed Venice with something that sounded like a sigh of relief. In his first sermon from the pulpit of St. Mark's he said: "Do not look upon your patriarch as a politician, as a diplomat, but find in him a priest...