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Roads to Congress. Barkley picked up law in the informal and highly efficacious way of the times: a few courses at the University of Virginia law school, home reading, and a term of clerking in the office of Paducah's famous old Judge William Bishop (fictionalized as Judge Priest by Paducah's other famous citizen, Irvin S. Cobb). Law led to politics, and in 1905 Barkley rambled through McCracken County on a one-eyed horse, stopping at every farmhouse to swap stories and get himself elected county prosecuting attorney. The next jump (in 1909) was to county judge...
Plato's Weakness. As a priest and a member of a family which has been Christian for centuries. Philip Kaipanplakal is forcibly aware of the snail's-pace progress of Indian Christianity (Protestants and Catholics together form about 2½% of India's population). The main reason, as Dom Philip sees it: "Missionaries offer Indians not pure Christianity, but Christianity plus European culture...
Alumni of Connecticut's Kent School remember a famous function-the night the headmaster sat in for a sick violinist at the prep school's dance. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...
Father Andrei Moldovan, a priest of the Rumanian Orthodox Church,* said goodbye to his Akron congregation one day in 1950; he was leaving, he told them, for a vacation in Hot Springs, Ark. Actually, Father Moldovan hustled off to Communist Rumania, got himself consecrated bishop of the Rumanian communion in the U.S., then returned to the U.S. to claim his title. Last week, to the satisfaction of most of his 55,000 fellow churchmen, a Cleveland federal court told Moldovan he had no right to the title...
Proudly present for the performance was Father Dante del Fiorentino, a Brooklyn priest who knew Puccini intimately for years. While collecting material for a Puccini biography last year, he found one of the two known copies of the Mass in the family of Puccini's music secretary (the other is in a museum), then worked hard until it was published and performed. The Mass cannot easily be used in sacred services (a 1903 papal encyclical, among other things, generally forbids the use of orchestras in church). But Father del Fiorentino will see to it that the church benefits...