Word: coeli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another one that helps to explain Raffaele Minichiello's bizarre action. Raff, as his family calls him, retraced that first, formative journey for U.S. Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, who flew to Rome to organize Minichiello's defense. As the young Marine talked in his cell in Regina Coeli prison, Attorney Mitchelson recorded parts of it in Raff's own hesitant English. TIME here presents Minichiello's troubled story...
...days the prisoners of Rome's Regina Coeli prison anxiously studied their catechisms. Then at 8 one morning last week, Pope Paul VI, 66, arrived to celebrate Mass, the first modern Pope ever to do so in a jail (Pope John XXIII visited the same prison in 1958, but did not say Mass). Four prisoners assisted Paul at the ceremony, and more than 600 inmates received Communion. Afterward, with the men pressing freely around him, the Pontiff was moved to tears, as he told them: "I have come to kindle in each of you a flame that may have...
...Church bells tolled a greeting as the papal entourage passed along the streets of Rome. Despite the tight schedule that Vatican officials had toyed and fussed with all week, the Pope took the journey at his own pace. Once he stopped to greet a delegation of convicts from Regina Coeli prison, another time to bless a crowd gathered in the village of Acilia. At the windswept airport the Pope shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist Pietro Nenni...
...since the end of World War II, increased in number from 293 to 1,018. In the past decade three other congregations-the Camaldolese, the Olivetan Benedictines and the Carthusians-have established their own way of life in the U.S. Father Joseph Brennan, prior of the Regina Coeli Olivetan Monastery at Lake Charles, La., says flatly: "There has been a Benedictine renaissance in America in the last five or six years...