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Your write-up of the Holy Year is unusually good and readable. There is only one error, if I understand the thing correctly. You refer to St. Peter as the "founder of the Church." Not correct. Christ founded the Catholic Church; He built it on Peter; Peter was the rock on which the Church was established. Your error is not a rare...
...pudgy finger to a spot that reads: "In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reported tomb of the very founder of the Church." No writer of gospels himself, Peter thumbed his way to St. Matthew 16:18, where he read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against...
...painful way through priggishness to virtue. In England he was doing well in biology when his sister's death called him home. There he married an older woman, narrow, Fundamentalist, and together they went to Africa to physic the heathen. But his marriage went to smash on the Rock of Ages. When he met a second-rate singer who flattered him, though a child could have told him not to take a chance, he did, with disastrous results. Disillusioned, middle-aged but still far from sophisticated, Dr. Haaska met Nurse Gay in the army. They hit it off well...
Walking in Washington's Rock Creek Park while his wife waited in their car, hale George Brinton McClellan, 67, three-career man (New York City's one-time Mayor and Congressman, Princeton professor, author), namesake son of the famed Civil War General, tried to cross the narrow creek bed. slipped on the concrete bottom, breaking his leg. For half an hour before his wife heard him he lay half under water, unable to rise, calling for help...
...Harriman's walk in life was one of the best. He was a socialite and an equestrian, a conspicuous member of all the best clubs from the Union to Piping Rock. On a ridge at Brookville, surrounded by one of the few groves of real trees still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington...