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...course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife is to be Nora, orphaned daughter of a family friend and a foster child in the Cronin home. Sean loves her; Paul gets her, hence the temptation of Thy Brother's Wife...
Everything moves fast for the Cronins-even tragedy. Paul goes to Washington on Bobby Kennedy's team; Nora plays football with Bobby, pushes him into his pool, sees him assassinated in Los Angeles. Paul, singlehanded, is made to exaggerate all the faults imputed to the Kennedy men. His war heroics are accidental as he flees from the enemy; he helps steal a test in law school; he becomes a compulsive bed hopper, driving one girlfriend to suicide and leaving her daughter, a campaign aide, to die in a hotel fire. Paul is a Senator running for President when fate...
...papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain from voting. The move wins him an interview with Pope Paul VI, whom he lectures about the need for a new theology of sexual morality. Sean could use it himself: he has just spent two weeks in bed with Nora. Neither the interlude nor a brash period of liberalism prevents his rise, however, first to bishop and then, after a telephone call from Pope Paul, to Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago...
...Nora stood up. 'Well, I'd better leave...
...past love tumbled through his mind. Oakland Beach ... Amalfi ... Yet surely the sweetness would be short-lived. Having her, he would lose her. Not having her, he could love her forever. Not for Jimmy McGuire, not for all the priests of Chicago, not even for the Pope, but for Nora ... yes, for Nora ... he would do what his damn fool Church and his damn fool God wanted him to do. He disengaged himself from the embrace. 'I've got to get ready for Mass...