Addendum.

I forgot -

He says that the Vatican secretary of state's nephew's an architect, and Maciel used to show up in Rome with big fat checks of like $50,000 and commission churches from him.

Also, the priest noticed when in one of the 1st sessions of class we were doing examples of recent Latin and he told us to open up our workbooks to a certain page, and when we did, it opened up to "Rerum Novarum", and I did a little gasp "oh!"... At that, he gave me a quizzative (sp.?) look, and was like, "You know it?".