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...Still, there is little reason to doubt the basics of the latest medical concern that created, then rather quickly seems to have dispelled, the biggest scare for the faithful in years. The Pope was hoarse but in high spirits at Sunday's traditional Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square. Less than 24 hours later, papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls released a statement canceling all of John Paul's appointments for Monday because of what was described as a mild case of the flu. The plugged-in Italian press corps took a light approach to the story by noting that...
...Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U.S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U.S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U.S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Sister Aimee bemoaned: "I never dreamed . . ." etc. Asked if she would pay, she replied: "Oh yes, if the country...
...play is an essay on the artistocracy of the insane: Whom the gods wish to embrace, they first drive mad. Agnes is a strange young woman, singing in an Angelus-clear soprano and obey voices no one can hear. It remains for Martha and Miriam to translate these sounds into the lumbering prose of reason. Pielmeier orchestrates the examination deftly and leavens the weightier speculations with airy talk-show humor. But as Agnes soars into catharsis and Martha tries desparately to anchor her in the explicable, Pielmeier allows himself to take leave of dramatic sense. He offers too many motivations...
Pope John Paul I, speaking about God at his regular Sunday Angelus blessing in St. Peter's Square: "He is Father. Even more, God is Mother, who does not want to harm...
...next morning the balloting began, and as the basilica bells were still pealing the noontime Angelus, the first puff of smoke wafted from the chapel chimney: black. Nine minutes later, more black smoke billowed forth, then seemed to turn white, then black again. False alarm. After the morning's first two ballots, Vatican Radio announced, there was no decision...