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Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...
This February, when Pope John Paul II was in the Philippines, he addressed China and declared, "Whatever difficulties there have been, they belong to the past." Significantly, the Pope has not risked mainland disapproval by appointing a nuncio to Nationalist China, or naming a Cardinal to succeed the late Paul Cardinal Yu Pin of Nanjing, who went to Taiwan in 1949 with the Nationalists. The Pope pointedly refers to that island's religious hierarchy not as bishops of China but as "the bishops of Taiwan." Vatican insiders believe he would drop diplomatic ties with Taiwan in return for restored...
...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...
...Valentine's Day (heh! heh!), to the strains of All the Way (get it?), a male guest registered and was duly admitted to Manhattan's Barbizon Hotel. In earlier times, last week's ceremony would have been like welcoming a satanic nuncio to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Since its founding in 1927, the Barbizon had been one of the few places in Gomorrah-on-Hudson where a girl could take her virtue to bed and rest assured that it would still be there next morning. As the late Sylvia Plath wrote of the Barbizon...
Perhaps because of this, Tehran permitted a tantalizing peek into the captives' lives. On Christmas Eve, Monsignor Annibale Bugnini, who represents the Vatican as the papal nuncio in Iran, was allowed to visit the Americans. He was taken blindfolded in a car on a ride so short that he assumed he was still in Tehran. So great is the mistrust in the city that even the revolutionary guards who rode along in the car also were blindfolded as they approached the secret destination. For nearly four hours, the monsignor chatted, sang and prayed with some...