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...Dramatic." The two churchmen will meet on the morning of Jan. 6-a date celebrated by both Rome and most of Orthodoxy as the Feast of the Epiphany. The site, proposed by the Vatican, will be the residence of the apostolic delegate in Jordanian Jerusalem. Rome ruled out any confrontation at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as "too dramatic," although the two men may go there later to join in common prayer. It is expected that the Pope and Athenagoras will talk for about an hour and exchange gifts...
...believes that Jesus was born in December; Smit thinks that the most likely time was the end of August. Not until the 4th century did the early church commemorate the Saviour's birth-and then it shrewdly but arbitrarily picked a date that coincided with a joyous pagan feast...
...Bedouin territory," he explains, "you've got to find their camp and check in. You ask for the sheik and tell him who you are and what you're up to. He's almost always friendly, usually too friendly. He has his people prepare a tremendous feast, just as Abraham killed a calf for his guests. You sit around the fire, stuffed with food and talking endlessly. Then you are taken to the guest tent and covered against the cold with the tribe's best blankets. Your hosts mean well, but the food is sometimes...
...faith and courage seldom are. In 1961, San Francisco-born Mother Genevieve McGloin of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order got a $100,000 donation from Bos ton's Richard Cardinal Cushing, and started a woman's college in Uruguay a country so bleakly antichurch that the feast of the Epiphany is celebrated as children's day, Christmas as family day and Easter as family week. Today, Mother McGloin's 18-man faculty includes three with doctorates and eight instructors with the equivalent of master's degrees...
Actually it was a fast not a feast that brought Gassman, Novelist Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, poets, folk singers and droves of journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project...