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Humble Powers Bruce Marshall Pope John XXIII convoked theBy Paul Horgan The best description of Humble Powers is that given by its own author. It is a triptych whose panels illustrate in settings of the recent past certain humble powers as old as mankind. In these three novelettes, these powers are qualified by the virtue of humility, and thus do they find their place within the context of an uninterrupted and universal Christianity, through which they speak in these stories. Illustrating the power of faith