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SARAJEVO: On a trip meant to deliver spiritual renewal, Pope John Paul II's weekend mission to Sarajevo is operating under a cloud. Recent explosions have already damaged five Catholic churches and a Franciscan monastery, sending tremors throughout the city's Catholic community of 30,000. As death threats are issued against John Paul, workers have welded shut manholes in the city and residents are under orders not to open their windows during the Pope's 25-hour visit. The greatest tension centers around Snipers Alley, a long stretch of road known for its wartime shootouts that the Pope will...
...were crimes on our side," he said, "but I am honestly innocent, as stupid as it sounds." While the Croats of Vitez rallied round, denouncing the Hague, Skopljak charged that "the tribunal believes stories invented by the Muslims. This is a staged process, a dirty political game." The former Franciscan monk insists that he "protected Muslims by hiding them, and I tried to find out who did Ahmici, but I didn't succeed." Confident Croatia's leaders would protect him, he declared, "I am staying here...
Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...
...life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained the use of her legs. (She did, but still walks with crutches...
According to Buruaga, Chant was a disenchanting experience for the monks even before it soared on the charts. First, EMI blundered by putting a painting of brown-robed Franciscan friars on the CD's cover instead of black-robed Benedictine monks-the ecclesiastical equivalent of putting a Yale man on the cover of the Harvard yearbook. Then, as Chant's sales took off, an overeager EMI executive flew to Silos to talk to the monks about a follow-up album. Suspicious of the machinery of stardom--and the private helicopter whirring overhead--the monks greeted the exec through a peephole...