Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acres of old maids" (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena-the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena seems to be dying. Next month the magazine Novena Notes, published by the Servile Fathers to promote novenas to Our Sorrowful Mother, will suspend publication because there is no real demand for it. "The novena is no longer very popular," say the editors. "In fact, attendance has fallen to a perilous low mark...
...chief editor of the rightist satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family friend-certain that his personal charm would carry the day. The editor came to the Fanfani apartment atop Rome's Monte Mario hill, expecting the Saint to talk about "saints and santoni [sarcastically, big saints]. Instead, he started talking about politics...
...assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops, seesaws and bogs down." La Pira denied everything, insisted he had been merely joking and speaking in "paradox...
...Judge Sévenier defends the name game as necessary to protect infants against "inconceivable and often absurd names." Sévenier himself winces at the father in Savoie whose surname was Cocu-Cuckold, and who named his son Parfait-Perfect. The Republic could do nothing: Parfait was a saint who has been revered in France since...
...battlefield in their war stretched from the kite-shaped six acre plot where they live, to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Boston, to Beacon Hill and the corridors of power in Washington, and to the paddy wagon and the jail cell...