Midway through the fourth quarter, the New Men's scoring dry-spell finally came to an end. Adam Iadipaolo made a 25 yard reception good for six and, on the following play, rushed for the extra point. The New Men now led by eight. The Old Men immediately responded with a six play series, which ended with Bill Hambleton's incursion into the New Men's endzone. Once again, the Old Men were unable to make their extra point conversion. This touchdown would ultimately be the last of the game. Photo: War in the trenches: the new men line buys time for quarterback, Dan Walz. Following a fruitless series by the New Men, the Old Men returned a punt deep into New Men territory. This would be the Old Men's final opportunity to gain the victory. The New Men defense, however, rose to the challenge and stopped the Old Men cold. The final score was New Men 27, Old Men 25. While securing a Spaghetti Bowl Championship is exciting for the New Men, the true victory was already won before they ever took the field. The whole point of the game is to foster a sense of unity and friendship among the New Men class. Whenever men must pool their strength for noble purposes, great things are certain to come about win, lose, or draw. Of course, it is always that much sweeter to win. Photo: Adam Iadipaolo dodges would be tacklers in Spaghetti Bowl 1999.
L'Osservatore Romano By: Msgr. Robert Dempsey Archdiocese of Chicago, Class of 1980
Photo: The proof-reading staff from Msgr. Dempsey's office from left to right: Stefania Brandt, Msgr. Dempsey, Anna Morghen De Santis, Philippa Wooldridge and Kate Macelin-Rice. The Holy Father's English Newspaper Editor When the young NAC deacon stood before Pope John Paul II on Sunday morning, 15 June 1980, and was asked: "Do you promise me and your Ordinary obedience and respect?", little did he realize all the ramifications of his answer: "I do," as he prepared to kneel over the tomb of St. Peter and receive priestly ordination from the Apostle's Successor. Yet scarcely 11 years later he would be called back to Rome to edit the weekly English edition of the Holy Father's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Although it was the first time a NAC alumnus was chosen to edit the Vatican's only English-language weekly, it is not too hard to discern why, after the untimely death of Msgr. John Muthig in January 1991, the Secretariat of State turned to a priest who had spent the last four critical years of his formation at the College, if we consider the nature of L'Osservatore Romano and the kind of priestly training NAC has always provided for its seminarians. The original idea for weekly editions of L'Osservatore Romano in languages other than Italian goes back to Pope Pius X11, who reasoned that, if the Successor of Peter was going; to have a newspaper to publicize his teaching, it should reach as many people as possible. So in 1947 he directed Msgr. Montini (later Pope Paul VI) to make the necessary arrangements for a weekly edition in French.