Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the operation. By the time Gemelli issued the hopeful medical bulletin, John Paul was already conscious and smiling as hospital staff members wheeled him back to his suite. He will still have to spend at least ten days in Gemelli and a longer period of convalescence at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo before resuming his duties at the Vatican...
...appointed in a number of large urban dioceses, among them Milan, Paris and Washington. Crucial projects to overhaul the Vatican's financial organization and to revise the church's canon law have been delayed, and a shake-up of the cumbersome Curia is long overdue. All await papal supervision and approval...
Greeley tracks the men to the 1978 papal elections, a maneuver that allows him to ransack his own nonfiction book, The Making of the Popes, 1978, and to use Pope John Paul II in a cameo role, praying for Cardinal Donahue's dying mistress. Along the way there are other, even less beguiling vignettes: in one scene Greeley portrays "a disciple of the Berrigans'," proclaiming that "we will make bombs, find guns; we will burn, trash and destroy." That is not what the Berrigans have ever preached, as Greeley well knows. But it is a symptom...
...press junket was for the opening of the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts and it was being held for members, sustaining members, contributing members, patrons, benefactors, papal nuncios, photographers, brie-eaters, and people from Weston. The Intern and the Foreign Car Driver had to come in early through a back door and were talking to some models from Filene's who were hired, to stand perfectly still, like mannequins, throughout the new wing to advertise the latest fashions. One woman was wearing the latest in sweatsuit technology, complete with gamma ray sunglasses. The rest were attired...
...strictness bemuses those who recall that the Church of England was created because Henry VIII, against papal orders, wanted to shed Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did he divorce Anne or any of his succeeding four wives.* The ancient Anglican church tradition forced King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret...