Word: papal
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...talked about. The Catholic teachers that schooled each of them back in the '30s? Why Castro expelled all those priests? How the Pope helped bring about the demise of Marxist Europe? More likely, they touched on the trade embargoes against Cuba, which both oppose, and the possibility of a papal visit to Castro's island, the only Latin American country His Holiness has never set foot on. It's also a safe bet the notoriously prolix Castro did most of the talking. "The Pope," Castro said afterward, "moved...
...ringed by zodiac signs, dotted by paintings of puffy clouds and gilded with the Artist's gold records. High up on one wall is an illustration of two huge eyes--guess whose?--with a godlike sunburst beaming out from between them. The Artist's private office has a papal portentousness to it--the doors are made of stained glass. And when the Artist is on the premises, a glass pyramid that crowns the complex glows with a purplish light. That is how ye shall know he is among...
Bainbridge's discovery placed him in direct head-on conflict with papal doctrine, recalls Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Richard Wilson...
...amusing thing is [Bainbridge's papers] came out just after one of these papal encyclicals, summarizing the state of scientific knowledge, which said that nuclei decay at the same rate, no matter the chemistry," Wilson says. "We were kidding him that he was in trouble with the pope...
VATICAN CITY: The ancient walls of the Sistine Chapel, the site of the papal conclaves where the College of Cardinals secretly chooses a new pope will soon be guarded against sophisticated electronic eavesdropping. A new rule book for papal conclaves written by Pope John Paul II lays down new rules for the conclaves. Included in the new rules: checks to ensure that "no audiovisual equipment" has been secretly installed. John Paul's revision of the conclave rules is not unusual -- nearly every pope this century has made changes, and John Paul is unusually sensitive to new technologies. Under his auspices...