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The big guy sitting across the aisle on the Los Angeles to New York flight grinned at me. \u201cI happened to notice you reading that story about the Pope\u2019s illness. Don\u2019t worry about it. He\u2019ll be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n

I gave him a double-take as he nodded his head emphatically.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a Catholic … aren\u2019t you?\u201d … I nodded. \u201cWell, I\u2019m a Protestant,\u201d he went on. \u201cBut I can tell you something about the Pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Your reporter, a bit puzzled, urged him to continue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBefore he became Pope he was Eugene Cardinal Pacelli and he visited this country,\u201d the big guy said. \u201cI was the co-pilot of the plane that flew him from city to city. He had to cover a lot of cities on a lot of visits. And right smack in the middle of the trip we ran into some bad flying weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne black morning, the Cardinal came down to the hangar, and he said to me and my pilot, \u2018I don\u2019t want you young men to do anything you don\u2019t want to do. But if you don\u2019t mind flying in this sort of weather, I don\u2019t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The big guy paused to reflect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pilot was a Protestant, too. We looked at each other, both with the same thought. If we said \u2018no,\u2019 it meant that Cardinal Pacelli had more moxie than both of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently the Cardinal read our thoughts because he said gently, \u2018This is not a matter of courage. I just wanted you to know that I trust you both.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

My flight companion smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe told him we\u2019d fly. But by the time we got the plane out of the hangar, there was a solid bank of black clouds at the end of the runway.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019What do you say?\u2019 the pilot asked me.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Give it the gun,\u2019 I told him. And we took off. I guess we were just returning the faith he expressed in us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gained altitude and headed into the storm clouds. Back in the cabin the Cardinal was sitting there, his thin face calm, prayerful, a sort of glow on it. Suddenly a hole opened up in the cloud center, and we sailed through. And as we went through, the opening sealed up again. If that happened once, it happened five times.\u201d<\/p>\n

The big guy finished the story, and I sat silent and nostalgic.<\/p>\n

I knew what he meant by the \u201cglow.\u201d When my wife and daughter and I were in the Vatican in 1949, I was so intent on the Pope\u2019s face that I had to ask the girls later what color robe he had worn.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: MIKE DOUGLAS ON EMBRACING PRAYER<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Then my thoughts wandered to the time I was a kid of 18 and a twelve-dollar-a-week sports editor of the Port Chester, N. Y. Daily Item.<\/em> When the Hartford Post<\/em> offered me a fifty-dollar-a-week job, there was a farewell banquet and speeches\u2014glowing speeches about the bright future in Hartford.<\/p>\n

Four days after I started work with the Hartford Post<\/em>, the owner announced he was selling the paper. All employees would be given two weeks\u2019 pay.<\/p>\n

My whole, big, important world crashed. How could I go back to Port Chester? My successor at the Item<\/em> was already at work. At 18 a lot of false pride can confuse your thinking. And at 18 every setback is a major calamity.<\/p>\n

I got a job in a Hartford department store, wrapping bundles. Everybody in Connecticut was buying pots and pans that week. And wrapping paper neatly around the handles of pans requires artistry not possessed by an ex-sportswriter.<\/p>\n

Then an infection developed on the right side of my lower jaw. The pain became so bad I couldn\u2019t sleep. I was alone, too proud to go home, in pain and discouraged.<\/p>\n

Just a few years before, when a student at St. Mary\u2019s School in Port Chester, we would recite the Rosary, rattling off the responses so rapidly that it became a sing-song, devoid of meaning.<\/p>\n

But when you\u2019re in trouble and kneel in prayer by your bed, the \u201cHail Mary\u201d becomes a very personal salutation. And your plea: \u201cPray for us sinners\u201d is the complete recognition of your helplessness\u2014and your faith.<\/p>\n

Every young man comes to one crossroad where he is tested for manhood. At this point in Hartford prayer helped me grow up. I quit feeling sorry for myself, stuck with the job I didn\u2019t like, went on my own to the Hartford Hospital Clinic, where a young, cheerful doctor cleaned out the infection in my jaw.<\/p>\n

Several days later I returned from the department store to find a letter for me on the hallway table. The upper left-hand corner had the imprint, New York Evening Mail<\/em>. I tore it open. It was from Sam Murphy, Sports Editor of the Mail<\/em> and one of my job contacts.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Sullivan,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI have recommended you to our school page editor, Jack Jacowitz, to cover sports for him. Can you be in New York Monday morning?\u201d<\/p>\n

Could I! I wrapped my last pot and pan that Saturday night, caught an express train to Port Chester and home. That same night I was proudly showing to my mother, father, three sisters, and brother that letter and its offer of a job on a big New York daily.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, I went to work on the Mail<\/em>, and for weeks afterwards was staring openmouthed at all the big-name newspaper by-liners along Park Row.<\/p>\n

All of my life I\u2019ve been blessed, first with a wonderful father and mother, sisters and brothers. Later with an exceptional wife, special daughter and splendid son-in-law. My TV show dropped into my lap by complete accident.<\/p>\n

It is my deepest belief that all of these things have resulted from prayer\u2014not so much my own\u2014but prayers of priests and nuns I have known and with whom I\u2019ve been privileged to work. And certainly the prayers and intercession of those close to me who have died.<\/p>\n

So I know about the power of prayer. I know it keeps you steady, unshaken and able to take pain. I know it will guide you to your place\u2014the place that will best help you grow.<\/p>\n

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