Aprille

April again- and Sister Irene, after another winter of councils and schisms, had brought another class to Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope. "But, after all," she had often said in the convent recreation room and was saying to the sophomores at the moment, "if the Church could survive the man, the Church can survive a discussion of the man."

The girls nodded and recorded it in their notebooks.

"What's that, Rosemary?"

The girl who had been whispering blushed and said, "Nothing, Sister."

Sister Irene was firm. "Let's have these objections out in the open." Sometimes they could be anything but receptive.

Rosemary shook her head. "No objections here, Sister. I was just saying that history is more fun than fiction."

And sometimes they could be too receptive. "Class dismissed," she said. They closed their notebooks on Alexander VI and waited for her. She had to be the first ...

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