Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCATTERING the ever-present pigeons before them, stocky Bavarians strode across the Piazza San Marco, stopping to admire the lofty 11th century basilica, where Christian knights knelt in prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel...
Speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday of Holy Week, the Pope identified the present-day sufferings of the church with the agony of Christ. "The Lord tests us," he declared. "The church suffers from the abandonment by so many Catholics of the fidelity that centuries-old tradition merits." Even "favored sons" engage in destructive criticism, and by their defections, "certain ecclesiastics and religious crucify the church." At Holy Thursday services next day, he spoke of the "practically schismatic ferment that divides and subdivides the church. How can the living and true church be authentic...
White Limestone. At long last, Nazareth can offer good reason for a longer stay. Rising over the grotto is the new Basilica of the Incarnation and Church of the Annunciation, a double-decked, $2,000,000 building of dressed white Nazareth limestone that took 15 years to plan and build. Paid for by worldwide donations and built under the supervision of the Franciscan fathers, the new basilica is the largest Christian house of worship in the Middle East (capacity 3,000). Reflecting the long history of the sacred site, its lower church incorporates pillars, walls and an altar from several...
...well, but admits "I have a special feeling for religious art." He received only $28,000, well below his usual fee, for the Nazareth doors-but they may remain on public display a lot longer than some of his other works. One Israeli architect estimates that the new basilica ought to last at least 1,000 years...
...year began, an American prelate in the Vatican took charge of the institute's affairs. He is Paul Marcinkus, a 47-year-old native of Cicero, Ill., and former special assistant to Pope Paul. In a 2 ½-hour ceremony in St. Peter's basilica in Rome, a choir chanted and Swiss Papal Guards stood stiffly at attention while Marcinkus prostrated himself at the Pope's feet to be made a bishop. The next morning, the burly Marcinkus, who stands 6 ft. 3 in., star ed his new job as the institute's Secretary...