Word: cardinales
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Smooth Sailing. In part, the brisk pace of the session was due to the businesslike approach of four cardinal moderators. Last fall they were often hesitant and unsure; now they are quick to cut off speakers who go be yond their allotted ten minutes or stray from the point. But...
A rangy six-footer, Chance has a sinking fastball, a roundhouse country curve, and a curious quirk in his pitching motion: he turns his back on the batter during his windup. "Never take your eyes off home plate" is a cardinal rule of pitching, but Chance shrugs: "It don'...
Bishops from Spain, Poland and Italy argued that the draft of the chapter on Mary was too timid and should include a new title of praise for the Virgin, such as "Mediatrix" between man and God. Some Latin American prelates warned that current excesses of devotion to Mary were a...
Casaroli, who recently negotiated the disposition of Roman Catholic property with Moslem Tunisia, took over the job of dealing with Hungary from Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König. Originally, the Vatican tried to arrange the departure of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest...
As for the extraordinary people, it was the adventurer Casanova and the swindler Cagliostro who raised deception to a way of life and a high art; Machiavelli who made it a cardinal principle of statecraft; while Mussolini was by no means the first Italian leader to perish finally believing the...