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...vacuum that the church, often preceded and probably influenced by popular belief, has been gradually filling over the centuries. The Vatican's 1854 announcement as doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception, followed in 1950 by her bodily Assumption into heaven, infuriated many Protestants. Some historians read them primarily as papal defiance hurled at an increasingly non-Catholic world. Pelikan, however, discerns in them an exquisite dance of popular devotion, high theology and politics that finally produced official answers to ancient--but important--riddles of salvation. "The doctrine of Mary proved to be one of the most important places to observe...
...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...