Word: cardinales
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ELGAR: THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS (Angel). Sir Edward Elgar pondered Cardinal Newman's noble poem for fully a decade before finally setting it to music, and the result is an unusual confluence of religious and musical feeling. In his last agony an old man is guided past the demons...
The Poles who listened were more than merely sorry. Throughout Poland, the continuing attempts of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime to sidetrack the millennial festivities have created a darkening mood of resentment that is spreading from the deeply religious to those who normally take a more impartial stance. The...
"It is Gomulka," mutters one Communist official angrily. "It is the old man who picks up the telephone and says, 'Stop that procession.' It is Gomulka who wants the cardinal detained.
Local people are embarrassed by it. The party suffers. But what can you do?" Last week in Warsaw, following an emotional sermon from the cardinal ("We beg the authorities to stop fearing us and start loving us"), some 1,000 angry student demonstrators marched on party headquarters, defiantly shouting church...
Two years in the making, the Yugoslav protocol was merely the latest in a long line of negotiating successes that have earned Casaroli the Roman nickname of "the divine diplomat." In recent years, hardworking, hard-traveling Diplomat Casaroli has obtained the release from confinement of Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal...