Word: moreira
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...handicapping of the next pope has already begun, if in hushed tones. Carlo Maria Martini, the 72-year-old Archbishop of Milan, is a favorite with the liberals; fellow Italian Camillo Ruini, 68, is a coalition-friendly conservative. A Brazilian, 73-year-old Lucia Moreira Neves, is said to be John Paul?s own favorite -? and most likely to continue the aggressively internationalist trend that this pontiff has begun. "There are two lines of thinking in the Vatican right now about who it might be," says TIME Rome bureau chief Greg Burke. "One is that the mold has been forever...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status...
...throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
...reaction was a reminder that advertising, no less than any other art, bares the psyche of a nation. "Schmaltz is an American idiom," said Moreira. "We're a people who cherish wearing our feelings on our sleeve." Along with wavy fields of grain and golden, hazy images of plump grandparents, another American penchant is for the hard sell: buy because it tastes good, or because it works better...
When the synod's working sessions began on Oct. 1, however, Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves of Brazil reminded the bishops that Pope John Paul II has forbidden even discussion of the possibility of a married clergy. But a few bishops and interested observers suggested obliquely that the whole issue of matrimony and holy orders still needed airing. The subject got new life two weeks ago, when Brazil's Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider disclosed that the Pope had permitted two married men to be ordained in remote regions of Brazil, where the shortage of priests is severe. (The priests had to promise...