A front page editorial in the Boston Archdiocese's newspaper today bemoaned that the church "has been brought to its knees by the scandal" that "has exposed the wretchedness of some of its ministers and the protective culture that permeated the actions of its leaders".
He pleaded with him to go in order to preserve his legacy, which is increasingly in question given the wretchedness of some of the football this Rangers side is producing.
Of primary concern was the need for some amelioration for "the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class".
I felt that in some way I had profited from their wretchedness.
The Pope spoke urgently of the need to find "some opportune remedy... for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class".
They are in some unaccount able way terribly in love with their own wretchedness.
"This Blinding Absence of Light," fluently translated from the French by Linda Coverdale, is a kind of gloss on suffering, with some passages achieving an almost mystical beauty ("My survival, my wretchedness, my agony were inscribed on the veil of night").
The captain looks down into steerage and confronts such wretchedness that he cannot stop himself from dreaming that in some world, somewhere, people would be bothered by it: "And it is all so bitterly unmerited.
The media make wretchedness commonplace.
By fairly common consent, a hangover will involve some combination of headache, upset stomach, thirst, food aversion, nausea, diarrhea, tremulousness, fatigue, and a general feeling of wretchedness.
