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...wasn't the sort of place people usually see a movie in. No boorish Moorish architecture, no chewing gum under the seats. Instead, the hall was a deep blue nave, immensely high and still, looped gracefully with golden galleries. And the images on the screen were not the sort one sees at the average alhambra. No Tammy, no Debbie, no winning of the West. Instead, a bear roamed and roared in a Mexican mansion and a regiment of French actors fought the American Civil War and a samurai disemboweled himself right there in front of everybody...
...council gave voice to 2,500 bishops from all over the world, and it turned out that their voice, heard in the great debate of St. Peter's nave, spoke for John's instincts and not for the conservative Italians who govern the church in the name of the Pope...
Toward noon of a soft London day last week, Westminster Abbey glowed as richly as a Renaissance painting. From the banner-draped high altar to the flower-banked west door, the great Gothic nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras. Packed into rows of rented wooden chairs, the 2,000 waiting guests put their best profiles forward for the 30 TV cameras covering the abbey. At 12:02, two minutes behind schedule, a trumpet fanfare sounded from the rafters, the organ thundered Holy, Holy, Holy, and the bridal procession started its stately advance up the blue-carpeted aisle...
Rome last week bustled with preparations for this opening ceremony. In a hall on the Via della Conciliazione, the 41 priests and seminarians selected as stenographers for the council struggled to master a special Latin shorthand devised by Professor Aloys Kennerknecht of Mainz University. Inside the nave of St. Peter...
Whether much or little comes out of the council depends to a large extent upon the numerical strength-and the endurance-of the two opposing forces that will clash at the council. Says Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa: "There will be much disputing in the nave of St. Peter's over how the church must enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto...