Word: papal
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...opinions from 75,000 women in all. The text has been revised several times, with drafts made public and debated in 1988 and 1990. The Vatican, leery of the discussion's direction, insisted that representatives from the U.S. hierarchy attend a conference in Rome last year to hear out papal advisers and bishops from 13 other nations on women's issues...
...idealization within nature. He was not a "Roman" classicist, creating emblems of political virtue like Jacques-Louis David. From all we know of Canova, he never seems to have had a thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed, he was practicing an early kind of art for art's sake, in which formal inflection and delicacy, combined with an exquisite instinct for the equilibrium of masses, reigned supreme...
...fate of Italian Jewry during World War II has a special poignancy. This oldest of Judaic communities in the Western world had survived nearly two millenniums of intermittent repression and persecution. Italy was among the last countries of Europe to eliminate the ghetto, when Rome was liberated and the Papal States were abolished in 1870. Yet during the next 60 or so years, life for Italian Jews was sweet indeed. Anti-Semitism was of little moment in a country where they were such a tiny minority -- 47,000 in a population of 45 million, as of 1910 -- that most Italians...
Only President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were present in the Vatican Library on Monday, June 7, 1982. It was the first time the two had met, and they talked for 50 minutes. In the same wing of the papal apartments, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli and Archbishop Achille Silvestrini met with Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Judge William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser. Most of their discussion focused on Israel's invasion of Lebanon, then in its second day; Haig told them Prime Minister Menachem Begin had assured him that the invasion would not go farther than...
According to Lucia, papal attempts to carry out that consecration failed in 1942, '52 and '82. John Paul finally carried out Mary's directive correctly in 1984 -- and the very next year Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power inaugurated the Soviet collapse. Says Father Robert Fox of the Fatima Family Shrine in Alexandria, S. Dak.: "The world will recognize in due time that the defeat of communism came at the intercession of the mother of Jesus...