Pope Cornelius, a reconciler, had a hard road.(Opinion) From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: September 24, 2004| Author: McBrien, Richard P. | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The names of several apostles, popes and other male saints of the early church appear in brackets in the first eucharistic prayer, which means that their names are almost never mentioned at Mass, even when the presider uses that prayer.

These figures share the same fate with the only saintly women who are included, also in brackets, in the second half of the same prayer: Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia and Anastasia. One almost never hears their names pr...