Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Pope Paul and the D.C. recognize that in an increasingly secularized and anticlerical Italy-where divorce and abortion have been burning issues-too much Vatican interference could backfire. Moro himself has made no mention of the papal support, preferring to deliver his own moral appeals: "What divides us from the Communists? You know. It is our conception of man and our Christian belief, which is an important part of our heritage...
...small, rotund figure climbed the 15 steps toward him, Pope Paul VI last week signaled his pleasure. He rose from the papal throne in the Vatican's audience hall, where he had just bestowed the three-cornered biretta upon 19 newly named members of the College of Cardinals. Then Paul stretched out his arms in welcome to the 20th candidate: Joseph Marie Cardinal Trinnhu-Khue, 76, Archbishop of Hanoi...
...bishops' conference. A possible explanation: Paul named as cardinals only two of the nine members of the permanent secretariat elected by the 1974 international Synod of Bishops, thus bypassing Bernardin and other likely candidates. By one Roman reading, he is retaliating against the synod, which aroused papal anxiety with its bold and critical views...
...guilt, will always preoccupy us. Bodily pleasure and desire is an integral part of love, and it is perturbing to see it attacked and love sullied. In Christian terms, love means redemptions, and this is the Catch 22 for the holy Council scandalized by debauchery in the 15th-century Papal Court. Panizza latched onto an intriguing bit of historical trivia for his bawdy mystery play on evil; the first outbreak of syphilis recorded in history occured in the spring...
...Council of Love. One of the actors in this play described it to me as "more of an orgy, sort of, than a play." This is its American premier, and as far as I can tell it deals with syphilis coming to the papal court in the 17th century. Or something. An allegory for heaven knows what, by Oscar Panizza. On the Loeb Mainstage, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. $3.00 weekdays and Sunday, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...