How will the new archbishop, who will become spiritual shepherd of 2.4 million Catholics, adapt to the scarcity of new priests?
Cultured, lawyerly and aloof — a tall, courtly man dressed in workaday black with the stiff gait of a polio survivor — this archbishop and shepherd of 2.5 million Catholics could walk down the street without attracting any attention at all.
Chicagoans knew George as the shepherd of 2.2 million Catholics in part because, here as nationwide, his church is the largest private provider of education, health and social services.
The Belgian shepherd consists of four variants: Groenendael, Tervueren, Malinois and Laikenois.
There is a bit of the performance artist in Mr. Ramirez as he demonstrates not the distress of Christ on the cross -- though that image springs to mind given his tortured upper-body language -- but the stress of playing shepherd to two far-flung flocks.
He described shepherding the cases of two minority applicants through the process, an action that incurred the wrath of one union member whose sons Mr. Conway had tested and failed.
JUST over 40 years ago, Greek and Turkish book-lovers alike burst into tears as they read a new Greek novel: in "Farewell Anatolia", Dido Sotiriou drew on her childhood memories to describe the comradeship of two shepherd boys, one Christian, the other Muslim, who go on to fight on opposite sides of the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-22.
The Gypsy wagon starts at £124 for two nights' stay midweek (sleeps two adults and one child), 01825 723414, wowo.co.uk The rustic wood exterior of this shepherd's hut (one of two on the estate) transforms into a world of cosiness once you step through the door.
Dr. Fanelli shepherded financing and construction of two buildings 10 years ago, one to house social sciences and a few other departments, the other to triple the space for a student center.
Also in the eighties, Prince collaborated with the late Colin de Land, an eccentric dealer, to make the work and shepherd the career of one John Dogg, a fashionable and, it later turned out, nonexistent sculptor.
