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Waiting Jet. Reprisal was swift. The bishop was at home brushing his teeth when police telephoned. "Please prepare yourself for a trip within half an hour," he was told. A jet was waiting at Bilbao's airport to fly the bishop and his vicar general to Rome. Before the government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten...
Boiled Candlefish. The device that transforms the book into fiction is rude enough. Everything that Margaret Craven swiftly experienced and loved about the Kwakiutls is gradually learned by a young Anglican vicar, Mark Brian. He is fatally ill but does not know it, and has been sent to the village by his bishop to "learn enough of life to be ready to die." Much of Mark's story is presented as a marvelously compact and compelling semidocumentary. The reader meets the old and the young of the village, learns that much of the tribe's food is customarily...
Convict Jarvis Chuff, a brainy, pacific and proletarian train robber, finds himself mysteriously sprung from the nick. His benefactors turn out to be a wealthy singer turned princess by marriage, a Church of England vicar, an ancient British major with a limp and a svelte, pneumatic upper-class bird named Philomela. Chuff (homonym for Chough, the acquisitive European jackdaw) is given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal...
Died. Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua, 68, Vicar General of Rome and former Vatican Under Secretary of State who was considered a leading candidate for the papacy in the event of Paul VI's retirement; of a heart attack; while leading a pilgrimage in Lourdes, France. The death of Dell'Acqua, one of the Pope's closest aides, was the second in the Sacred College of Cardinals within a month and the fourth this year, reducing its number...
...bishop came on like a thunderclap. Last January, when Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, was named to the see from the rectorate of an old-folks home, hardly anyone knew who he was. They soon found out. In the next six months, Gijsen sacked his deputy bishop and two vicar generals. He issued a ukase telling his pastoral council that it would have to follow whatever policy he laid down. That policy included a strict stand against birth control, opposition to any democratic procedures in the church, and a stand on abortion more rigid than that adopted by his fellow bishops...