A more free-wheeling verbal invention of [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge's, Aspheterism, meant the absence of private property. Aspheterism would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.

If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously.

Can the pope, to say nothing of himself and his cardinals, do away with his four archbishops and ninety-eight bishops? Will he reduce the prodigious number of his priests, who muster as strong as one twenty-eighth of the population? Will he uncowl his monks, two thousand and twenty-three of whom swarm about the streets of Rome alone?

I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.