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The House managers will do everything they can to push across that boundary, confronting Lott with another set of difficult choices as he tries to grind the process to a halt without angering G.O.P. Senators who feel the prosecution has been slighted. Rather than calling the 15 witnesses the managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fasten Your Seat Belts | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

But there were also reasons why a frail 78-year-old with Parkinson's spent two hectic days in the river city. One was that by hopping from deeply Catholic Mexico City to Catholic-founded St. Louis, he stressed solidarity within the huge territory that, despite political and economic disparities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Flock | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Betty Rataj has beaten the clock. The alarm is set for 3:30 a.m., but like a kid before Christmas, she is up and about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Flock | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Roman Catholicism as practiced in America is not a consistent phenomenon. The day after John Paul left Missouri, Governor Mel Carnahan commuted the sentence of a convicted triple murderer from death to life without parole. Carnahan, a Baptist, announced that "I continue to support capital punishment," but after the Pontiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Flock | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Her first Pope was Pius XII. Her parents found him "a bit sour." Growing up in Lebanon, Ky., Betty Spalding went to confession, heard Mass in Latin and wore a demure chapel veil. She prayed avidly: "I was adding it up, earning heaven." In junior high school the nuns told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View From The Flock | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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