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...words came in the customary papal message to priests upon their Holy Thursday renewal of vows, but to Vatican watchers the occasion was anything but routine. Along with the 8,000-word statement on the priesthood, two chapters of which were a virtual mini-encyclical on celibacy, John Paul issued a 1,600-word letter to the world's bishops, exhorting them to make certain that priests follow his teachings. Only the Vatican has the power to release a priest from his vows. During John Paul's half year as Pope, the Vatican has received more than...
...John Paul continues his freeze on laicization, says one prelate familiar with Vatican processing, "I am sure that many priests will just walk out as they did in precouncil years." (Priests who leave without permission and then marry, as many do, are excommunicated...
...monk is not your average Trappist. He is a former U.S. Marine colonel who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading his troops out of a deathtrap during the Korean War; a Pulitzer prizewinner for the book he wrote about the experience; a former presidential emissary to the Vatican; and, until his retirement to the monastery, Chief Justice of the United States. Why not Pope...
...classic tests of a writer is his ability to persuade an audience to suspend disbelief. Walter F. Murphy persuades. In his hands, the audacious thesis of this massive, complex first novel becomes fascinatingly logical and intellectually gripping. No better fiction on the world of the Vatican is now in print. Murphy, a Princeton law professor, is a compulsive storyteller, and in The Vicar of Christ he tells three tales that could have made books in themselves. Part 1, reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant...
Though he will be back living and teaching at Princeton next fall, Murphy plans more novels. One, a spy story, is almost finished. Another, on which he has already done considerable research, will be a fictional biography of St. Peter. Although Murphy has yet to hear criticism from Vatican sources, he has already received a severe appraisal from one reader. His mother, the English teacher, is uneasy with the language in the Korean War section. She allowed that she "understood the point," reports Murphy, "but she didn't approve...