our correspondent judy valente talked with another gethsemani monk and poet, brother paul quenon, who knew merton and, like him, is a part-time hermit seeking the holy in silence. >> the lumber shed at the abbey of gethsemani in northern kentucky. it's late february. each night at 8:00, brother paul quenon walks to the shed, as he has every night for 20 years. he goes around back, where he finds his mattress. this is where he will sleep -- outdoors, no matter the weather. >> i can't be a full-time hermit, but i can be a nighttime hermit, and there's something about waking up in the middle of the night, and there's nobody around. there's a kind of an edge of solitude that you cannot experience in any other way. >> here, a monk seeks to live every moment in the presence of god, in unity with god. brother paul came to gethsemani 52 years ago. he was 17, inspired by reading the autobiography of the famous trappist monk thomas merton, who introduced many americans to the contemplative life. merton would eventually become his spiritual director and would encourage brother paul to write. tho

judy valente reports from chicago. >> my name is lorie crepeau. i'm the director of faith formation here. >> these parishioners at st. edna's church in suburban chicago are about to get a crash course in the changes coming to the catholic mass. >> i don't want you to think of this as, "oh great, come advent i'm going to walk into church and the communion rail's going to be back and ladies are going to have to wear kleenex on their head and oh me, oh my." that is not what is happening here. >> what is going to happen is that the words to some of the prayers and music these people have known for the past 40 years will change. it's the most significant retooling of the mass since 1973, when it went from latin to english. >> we wanted to make it simple for the people to understand, so we didn't stay true to the actual latin translation. we wanted to find words that people felt comfortable with. well, now you're comfortable. 40 years later you're comfortable. now we're going to try to make you uncomfortable by going back to where it should have been, a

>> no, he would be replacing valente. that seat has been vacant for several years. i do not recall the name, but as i said, mr. tatarazuk and i have been in constant communication about the transportation see. that is one of his passions. supervisor kim: i no quorum has been an issue for the task force. is it of members appointed, or of the entire body? >> members appointed. if you give us another member, you have created a quorum problem. supervisor kim: out of the two you have spoken to, were you able to gauge on this commitment answer -- ability to serve at all? >> i am totally convinced of his commitment to the process. i know he has a full-time day job working for one of the railroads, so i can understand how he might not be able to attend this. i have not heard from him in the last week or so. supervisor kim: thank you. i know our office did try to contact both applicants, and we were not able to reach them, but i know mr. tatarazuk had some difficult working hours that start early and go to the middle of the afternoon. >> that seat has been vacant for several

as i said before the reason for this i will defer to our moderator the valente 26, wrote in roll-call last month when congress is faced with the choice of exercising its war powers under the constitution it is a war dance that is a sidestep. four steps left, four steps to the right and a lot of back-and-forth. and he continues, this is especially true absent a presidential request to use force. members of congress prefer avoiding political risks when military failure is a possibility. interestingly, the anti-war democrat dennis kucinich of ohio says he will force a vote on ending the u.s. military operation in libya when the house adjourns from its weeklong recess next week. as soon as congress returns, he will introduce a bill pursuant to the war powers act to halt american military participation in the nato led libya campaign. the senate says if the house foreign affairs committee does not take up this bill with 16 legislative days, within 15 legislative days, it can then move directly to the floor for debate and -- and a vote under the war powers act. the white house welcomes congr