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...fire raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles...
...this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam...
Clad in simple white albs, 77 candidates for the priesthood prostrated themselves before the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica last week as the Supreme Pontiff invoked the blessings of the saints in heaven. Then, while the group knelt in four neat rows, Pope John Paul, followed by Monsignor Alvaro del Portillo, laid hands on the candidates' heads to convey to them the powers of priesthood...
Warring tribesmen had called a tem porary truce in honor of the Pontiff's visit. At Mount Hagen, from an altar covered with a thatched roof and lavishly decorated with hibiscus, orchids, bougainvillea and battle shields, the Pope made a plea for permanent peace to the crowd of almost 130,000. Then he gave Communion to warriors who glistened with pig fat and wore head dresses of black hawk feathers and crimson and golden plumes from the bird of paradise...
...welcomed to the steamy heat of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands with a fanfare played on conch shells and by an honor guard of spear-carrying tribes men. About one-sixth of the archipelago's scattered population of 300,000 is Catholic. Gathered before a plain wooden altar, the Solomon Islanders gave no thunderous cheers but greeted John Paul by falling silent, a traditional sign of respect...