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Thomas Sugrue complains that as an American Catholic, he is "now expected to approve the idea of sending an ambassador to the Vatican." Who expects him? His bishop? His parish priest? ... It seems to me that Roman Catholics in the U.S. have been very quiet on this whole matter, and they have shown great forbearance in the face of the abuse and suspicions which have been directed towards them ever since President Truman made known his desire to appoint an ambassador...
...Sugrue a year's subscription to America (Catholic weekly) that he has never been told by any priest or informed Catholic that he must approve sending an ambassador to the Vatican. And what kind of "sex" is it that he feels American Catholics "condemn continuously?" If he feels there is prolonged concentration on that one sin, possibly it is the only one he is interested in reading or hearing about ... I suggest Mr. Sugrue enroll in a course of elementary catechism and get off Paul Blanshard's knee...
...affection for his father, a crooked jockey, and Wilbur Daniel Steele's How Beautiful with Shoes, an eerie description of a meeting between an imaginative lunatic and an inarticulate farm girl. Most notable contribution from the younger generation is Prince of Darkness, in which a slothful priest is sketched and skewered by Catholic Writer J. F. Powers...
Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...
...village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call...