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...Some 20 married converts have become priests elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American program, it has been chronicled in a new book, The Pastoral Provisions: Married Catholic Priests (Sheed & Ward; 152 pages; $13.95), by priest-sociologist Joseph H. Fichter of Loyola University in New Orleans...
...seeking spiritual sustenance to carry them through to spring training, the off-season's brightest offering is Diamonds Are Forever (Chronicle; 166 pages; $35, $18.95 paper), a beguiling sampler of photos, artworks and writings about the game. The prose excerpts are literary as well as journalistic (Roger Angell, Wilfrid Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked by Crime Novelist...
...BOYS OF WINTER, Wilfrid Sheed...
ALNILAM, James Dickey -- THE BOYS OF WINTER, Wilfrid Sheed -- 50, Avery Corman MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK, Saul Bellow POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, Carrie Fisher -- YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, Joyce Carol Oates...
DIED. Philip Scharper, 65, editor in chief at Sheed & Ward (1957-69), then co-founder of Orbis Books, who brought U.S. readers the works of influential European and Third World Roman Catholic thinkers, including Hans Kung, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, Liberation Theologians Leonardo Boff and Gustavo Gutierrez; following a stroke; in North Tarrytown...