Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general audience. Since its beginning during the first decade of the 20th century, this event has usually taken place in St. Peter's Basilica, a resplendent setting that is unfortunately characterized by slushy acoustics and poor visibility. Centerpiece of the current Vatican construction is a sleek new papal audience hall designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, with well-planned, air-conditioned facilities for 14,000 pilgrims. Once it goes into use, the atmospheric old St. Peter's audiences will fade forever. Last week TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell revisited one to savor the sights and sounds...
...papal visit to the poor and rocky island in the Tyrrhenian Sea began joyfully enough. Flying into the capital of Cagliari, Paul was welcomed by the blast of boat whistles and salvos of fresh carnations and mimosa blossoms tossed in his path. Never before had a reigning Pontiff been on the island; the last papal visitor was Pontianus, who was exiled there in A.D. 235 by the Christian-hating Emperor Maximinus Thrax...
...struggling poor of Sardinia. While he was accepting gifts of fish and lobster and speaking to a crowd of 4,000 slumdwellers, a group of 20 anarchists held a protest near by. They called Paul an Antichrist, and insisted that Sant' Elia needed toilets and pharmacies more than papal visits. Police moved in to end the demonstration, and a fight broke out; 26 people were injured and 21 arrested before it was stopped. Some stones, newsmen insisted, hit the open car in which Paul and Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican Secretary of State, were riding at the close...
...Vatican later said that no such thing had happened. "It was an argument between police and demonstrators," a papal spokesman said. "Nobody opposed the Pope." Back in the Vatican, Paul used a routine audience at St. Peter's to blast the press. "They are no longer papers of information but deformation," he said. "They turned our visit upside down." Paul and his advisers were apparently worried that the confrontation at Sant' Elia might set a precedent that would encourage demonstrators to seek free publicity during future papal visits...
...special word of praise should go to Robert Fletcher for the costumes and settings, especially of the Papal scenes. The elaborate robes worn by the Cardinals and the uniforms of the guards were dazzling. Hume Cronyn, short and slender, was like a jaunty version of Pius XII when decked out in his garb as Pope...