Georgie Weakland was a "scroop"--one of those fervent Catholic kids who not only scrupulously obey the letter of the Church's law but seek ways to confront the irresolute and lead them to virtue. (p. 26)
grows up to be the abbot primate,
"Something had happened to the old boy," Father [Sebastian] Moore recalled. "I remember a cocktail party in London in 1968, around the time the Vatican was set to issue the document reaffirming the Church's stand against artificial means of birth control. Rembert and I were talking about one of our [Sant'Anselmo] classmates, who had been quite a radical in our day, opposed to just about everything the Pope did or said, and who had done a flip-flop and was now supporting Rome on this issue. Rembert leaned over to me and said, 'What's up with that guy? Gone completely square, hasn't he?' He was not the good little boy I'd known in the forties. ..." (p. 32)
The Education of an Archbishop: Travels with Rembert Weakland (1992), by Paul Wilkes, available at Amazon starting at $0.01.
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