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Last week, 507 years after Cardinal Isidore went through the wall, the Vatican again had an accredited ambassador in Istanbul. It named as apostolic internuncio (equivalent to minister plenipotentiary, and one step below apostolic nuncio or full ambassador) Francesco Lardone, 73, longtime (1924-49) professor of canon law at Catholic University of America in Washington, who last served the Vatican as nuncio to Peru. Last fall the Vatican switched Italian-born Archbishop Lardone to Istanbul as apostolic delegate to Turkey's 200,000 Catholics, mostly Eastern Rite Christians in communion with Rome. Turkey in turn has sent its first...
...became a Christian, along with his father and mother, at the age of eight. Trained by the Roman Catholic missionary White Fathers, he was ordained a priest in 1943, and served as assistant pastor at the Rubya mission for five years before going to Rome for special studies in canon law at the Gregorian University. In 1951 he was named the first bishop of the new diocese of Rutabo in Tanganyika, became the youngest and most active of Africa's 25 black bishops...
...years of labor this spirit has driven Sweden's Ernst Ingmar Bergman to produce an enormous canon of cinema, comprising 22 feature films and at least four other scripts, that merges into a single vast and violent masterpiece, a work of volcanic profundity and sometimes tumid pretentiousness, of snorting pornography, sly comedy and ripe ironic wisdom-a sort of serial Faust...
According to the code of canon law which became effective in 1918, all dioceses are required to hold a synod every ten years, but few of them do-Rome least of all, because Popes are usually too busy with other matters and because it is generally assumed that the Holy City has least need of spiritual jacking up. In calling the fourth synod in Rome's history,* Pope John obviously disagreed with that assumption...
...penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...