Word: altare
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...broke into small discussion groups. Caution was urged by Third World bishops as well as by lay advisers, whose selection had been screened by the Vatican. A first draft of the propositions for the Pope stated that women should be admitted to all nonordained ministries. That would include authorizing altar girls (common at Masses in the U.S., despite Vatican disapproval). The draft also urged a study of allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a U.S. spokesman on the issue, was reduced...
...right? Partly because the conservative faithful lack a totem with the stature of Barry Goldwater in 1964 or Reagan in 1980. Jack Kemp has been grooming himself for the role of high priest of the Reaganite church, but he has been unable to rise above the status of altar boy. Kemp revealed last week that he has borrowed against his federal matching funds (due in January) for the second time, a telling indication of his failure to rally the true believers. And in Iowa, Kemp is in danger of being demoted to fourth place by the energized Evangelicals supporting...
...between 3 a.m. and sunrise, the Tasty became the center of my known universe, a linoleum temple of greasy smells, wild conversation and piping hot coffee. Nightpeople would slip in and out of the dark cold, drawing up to the warm grill. The Man Behind the Counter tended the altar; the rest of us were the pilgrims come to pay homage to black coffee and hot cheeseburgers...
...part of his output, maybe half a dozen "typical" paintings, single images of great power and reductive concentration: a Paschal lamb, the Agnus Dei, lying in darkness mutely trussed for sacrifice; or a row of clay vessels as dense and grand as architecture, ritually arranged as though on an altar. Perhaps the most remarkable of all, usually exhibited at the National Gallery in London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds...
...Mafia hotels and quiet leafy parks of Vedado, Havana's modern midtown district. Like many a Cuban home, it has a dusty attic quality, the poignancy of a well-cared-for poverty. The apartment's contents are fairly typical. A high shelf has been turned into a home-made altar, crowded with Catholic icons. Below is a shelf stuffed with the works of Spinoza, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler. Between the two is a huge black-and-white TV set on which, boasts its owner, he can sometimes catch programs from the U.S. All through the place a ceaseless whine crackles...