Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close-Up! (ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A special documentary, "The Vatican," looks at Easter Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica...
...Italian press was outraged. "Why not St. Peter's Basilica!" snapped the Paese Sera. Grumbled Il Giornale d'ltalia: "It's like putting the Eiffel Tower up for auction." Romans conjured up terrible visions of neon signs winking over the colossal marble statues of Neptune and his Tritons...
Looking as if he had just stepped from a niche in an old cathedral, Pope John XXIII, 81, in miter and brocades attended canonization ceremonies for three new saints in St. Peter's Basilica. Later in the week, appearing at an audience for 1,200 (his first since his recovery from anemia), he entered the Vatican's Clementine Hall briskly, but accepted help in mounting the three steps to the golden throne. Cheerily expressing the hope that he would be around to see the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council before Christmas of 1963, he said: "One year...
...many Roman Catholic clerics at the Second Vatican Council, the most vital arena was not St. Peter's Basilica, where the prelates gathered for discussion, but a room on the third floor of Rome's college for German seminarians. Scores of cardinals and bishops from Germany, France, Africa and Latin America made pilgrimages there for theological advice. Theologians visited to discuss the issues and events of the council with the sad-eyed, soft-spoken man who occupied the room. He was Karl Rahner, 58, whom many eminent Roman Catholic thinkers regard as the most profound and most exciting...
...spent some time out of bed and planned to attend an elaborate canonization ceremony scheduled for St. Peter's Basilica next Sunday...