Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remonstrated, but to no avail." Yallop speculates that the Pope was poisoned, perhaps by someone tampering with a bottle of low-blood-pressure medicine called Effortil that the author says John Paul I kept at his bedside. Yallop insists that inconsistencies in the Vatican's account of the papal death and the absence of an autopsy point to a coverup...
...other momentous mark of papal favor occurred in 1982, when John Paul granted Opus a new status known as personal prelature. The prelature, a position achieved by no other church group, gives Opus autonomy as a worldwide, nonterritorial jurisdiction with its priests and laity subject to Opus' prelate...
...African country of Benin has emerged during the past 13 years as one of the most engaging personalities on the often austere Vatican staff. Ever ready to flash an infectious grin or pump a stranger's hand, he has even managed to upstage Pope John Paul: during a papal visit to Benin two years ago, it was Gantin who received the most rousing cheers from one welcoming crowd. John Paul's increasing trust hi his African aide was acknowledged last week when Gantin, in a major reshuffle of the papal staff, was promoted to one of three most...
...that took the reader to the scene. In this new enterprise she sometimes seems too much in a hurry to pause for that valuable indulgence. Her dense, rapid-fire synopsis of the siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious warrior-Pope Julius II) stops dead for impenetrable paragraphs dealing with Renaissance politics. The sharply polemical tone in the Viet Nam section undermines the intended message...
...efforts to spread Moscow's influence around the globe through propaganda and disinformation. But Turkish Gunman Men met Ali Agca's bungled attempt to kill Pope John Paul II in May 1981 tarnished the KGB's new image. Suspicions of a KGB link in the papal plot through Bulgarian surrogates gave rise to speculation that the Soviet agency still relied heavily on such dark arts as political assassination and clouded Andropov's time in power...