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High Table at Lowell was another distinctly non-Kansas event, and the night I attended the guests included Cardinal Cushing, the archbishop of Boston, and the chemistry professor who synthesized quinine. The emulations of Oxbridge seemed some-what self-conscious, but the sherry was smooth and His Eminence was grand company, relaxed rather than ecclesiastical...
...Zaire, and to the last refused to cede authority to the rebel leader. Instead, the resignation was vague at best. Government information minister Kin-Kiey Mulumba said that Mobutu was giving up his presidential powers, transferring the symbolic title of head of state to the newly elected parliament speaker, Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo. "He reigns but does not govern," Mulumba said. Under a proposal from Nelson Mandela, Kabila would accept a peaceful transfer of power from Monsengwo or some other transitional figure. Whether the increasingly balky Kabila will accept, or take Kinshasa by force, is still uncertain...
...consequences of such liberalization have not pleased the Vatican. In 1993 Archbishop Vincenzo Fagiolo called the American annulment figures "a grave scandal." Robert Vasoli, author of the forthcoming book Tearing Asunder: Annulment American Style, says that on this issue, "the church in the U.S. is practically in schism with Rome." An overstatement, perhaps, but in 1994 Pope John Paul II warned the Roman Rota, the Vatican court to which Rauch Kennedy has appealed, against a "mistaken idea of compassion and mercy" that might cloud true justice...
...comrades who were locked in Peru's harsh prisons. That, Fujimori vowed, he would never agree to. He gave the negotiations a try, if only to mask preparations for the assault. He arranged the promise of safe passage to Cuba for the rebels if they wanted it and appointed Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani as a special negotiator. After the raid, as the Archbishop expressed his sympathy to the families of the dead, he covered his tear-filled eyes with his hand...
...subtle clues "Archbishop," Memorial "Church" and "Sunday" weren't enough for him? What did he think the man was going to talk about, baseball statistics? --Elizabeth L. Randall...