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The Pope is expected to elevate more than 20 bishops this year to bring the College of Cardinals to its full complement of 120 voting members. John Paul, having already named more saints than any other Pope, plans on Sept. 3 to declare two of his predecessors blessed. The elevation...
CANONIZATION DECLARED. For MOTHER KATHARINE DREXEL, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, who died in 1955; by Pope John Paul ll; in Rome. The ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 1. A Philadelphia banking heiress, she spent her life serving disadvantaged American blacks and Indians.
DIED. IOANNA, 92, Bulgarian queen; in Estoril, Portugal. Her marriage to King Boris III was blessed by Mussolini, and her husband was rumored to have been poisoned by Hitler. She helped many Jews escape the Nazis, and was exiled in 1946 when communists dissolved the monarchy.
Maybe it was Oscar Wilde, the greatest Irishman since the blessed Brendan, who said it best: "One must have a heart of stone to read [Dickens' description of] the death of Little Nell without laughing." Much the same is true of the latest story to convulse the art world: the...
Despite its problems, entertaining snippets abound to counter the disappointing moments and clich‚s. Perfect Days is a romantic comedy blessed with some very witty lines-Barbs describes her uninterested male neighbor as having PGL, or Pointless Good Looks. Her mother Sadie and her friend Brendan have the...