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...main plot is arch, the subplot is fallen-arch. A coolheaded, busy, busy, busy Macy executive (Janis Paige) has been burned on the matrimonial altar and has sworn off men. Her next-door neighbor is an ex-marine (Craig Stevens) who has sworn off women in favor of his true love, the law. Fortunately, Divorcee Paige has a little daughter, an agnostic city tot who does not believe in Santa Claus. Lawyer Stevens undertakes to cure her unbelief. Does anyone hear those jingle bells turning into wedding bells...
Inside St. Peter's, the nave is still filled with the long rows of seats set up for the Vatican Council (which resumes next week); the papal audience takes place in the transept behind the high altar. Shortly before 10, about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled...
Like a Pope Should. As St. Peter's bells clanged out the hour, a cheer started at the door of Santa Marta, gradually filling the church. Surrounded by halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, borne high above the crowd on a portable chair, Pope Paul VI bobbed toward the high altar. He looked small and frail beneath his white robes and heavy red stole; his soft, graceful gestures reminded many of Pius XII. "I was very fond of John, but Paul looks more like a Pope should," an Italian student said...
...priests. Compared with most Protestant denominations, in which congregations participate in the service with hymns and responses, Catholicism at prayer is a church of silence. Enter almost any Roman Catholic church in Manhattan or Mantua or Manila: the priest at Mass will be standing at the altar, his back to the congregation, mumbling almost inaudibly in Latin, while the laymen in the pews silently finger rosaries or flip through the pages of their missals to find out what prayer the celebrant has reached...
...steadily progressing. Many Catholic churches in the U.S. have adopted the dialogue Mass. In some churches, the congregation repeats parts of the Mass in English, following along after an assisting priest, or even a layman, who stands facing the congregation and says in English what the priest at the altar has just recited in Latin...