Word: diese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As it does when any Pope dies, the work of the Curia last week came to an abrupt halt. All the officials so recently reappointed by John Paul were again suspended; in the last papal interregnum Camerlengo Villot was so strict that one Cardinal who came by his old office...
Then A Wedding cracks open, revealing disorders deeper than social pretension. The matriarch of the groom's family dies in her upstairs bedroom as the wedding party returns home for the reception, and those who know of it conspire to keep it a secret until the party is over...
"But the duck, he does not worry. When the duck dies, what does he think?"
For centuries, opera librettists snubbed The Duchess of Malfi. The cut was unkind, since her tragic tale is the very stuff of grand opera. John Webster's play, published in 1623, is admirably lurid and complicated. There is the Duchess's secret and forbidden marriage to her steward Antonio. There...
All Curial appointments cease when a Pope dies, but some work sputters on. The Congregation for Saints' Causes continued to investigate the sanctity of candidates last week, while Villot's former secretariat acknowledged the mountains of condolence messages. The usual Vatican postage stamps marked sede vacante (vacant see...