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...from the two immortals guiding the tour. Given this long view, episodes tend to cluster into something resembling a preordained pattern. Born in a backwater village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during a siege of whooping cough...
...Geoffrey Wolff, whose Bad Debts and The Duke of Deception deal with the misdeeds of the authors' con-man father Arthur Samuels Wolff, alias Arthur Saunders Wolff III, alias Saunders Ansell-Wolff III. In The Rich Brother, Tobias handles raffishness with affection. The hustler wearing the red blazer and Roman-emperor toupee, who hitches a ride with a Century 21 realtor and his blissed-out brother, is in the grand American tradition. "'I am by training an engineer,' Webster began. 'My work has exposed me to all but one of the continents, to desert and alp and forest, to every...
...letter that began, "Louis Farrakhan feels we should hate the Jews because they crucified Christ" [LETTERS, Nov. 18]. Representatives of the Roman Empire, not the Jews, ordered the death of Christ. This statement is used by some to justify anti-Semitic beliefs. Bruce Stein Edison...
...most important teachings to emanate from the Second Vatican Council was "collegiality," the concept that bishops collectively govern the Roman Catholic Church in union with the Pope. In a concrete application of that principle, since Vatican II ended in 1965 Popes have periodically summoned synods of bishops to offer advice on issues facing Catholicism. In practice, however, churchwide power is exercised by the Vatican Curia and the Cardinals who supervise its administrative agencies...
...ongoing body, empowered to act "in the name of the entire college of bishops." This group, said Hermaniuk, would acquire "legislative power to decide with the Holy Father and under his authority all problems of the life of the church, which now are decided by the Pope and the Roman Curia." Hermaniuk proposed that delegates petition Pope John Paul to establish the new body...