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Then Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” a Penguin edition of Sophocles, “The Three Theban Plays,” and two books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “The Phenomenon of Man” and “Writings Selected.”

And I can tell you that the closest he came to making a move in his office was reaching for a book by Teilhard de Chardin to give me.

He recalls Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s admonition, “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.”

Curry quoted Martin Luther King and Teilhard de Chardin, and his voice rumbled with gospel power.

“The late French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was at once a scientist, a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian, a true mystic,” said Curry in his sermon.