each one what he most desired. Religion played an important part in my early education, although an account of its form must disturb any reader seriously concerned about my spiritual upbringing. My father was a devout Roman Catholic, while my mother — the greatest Christian woman I have ever known — was born into the Protestant faith. 1 myself was baptized in (he Roman Church, and was sent to a Roman Catholic school in Mardin. Indeed, there was serious thought that I might later study for the priesthood. In the end my mother decided against it, and in after years, when we were both in the New World, 1 sometimes teased her, saying, "Well, you know if you had permitted me to study for the priesthood you would have been the first Protestant mother of a Pope.”