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VATICAN CITY: The ancient walls of the Sistine Chapel, the site of the papal conclaves where the College of Cardinals secretly chooses a new pope will soon be guarded against sophisticated electronic eavesdropping. A new rule book for papal conclaves written by Pope John Paul II lays down new rules for the conclaves. Included in the new rules: checks to ensure that "no audiovisual equipment" has been secretly installed. John Paul's revision of the conclave rules is not unusual -- nearly every pope this century has made changes, and John Paul is unusually sensitive to new technologies. Under his auspices...
...jobs promise a lifetime term: a seat on the Supreme Court, the papal office and membership on the Harvard Corporation...
...diocese in the new U.S. in 1789. This week, after appearances in New Jersey and New York, John Paul will come to the Baltimore Archdiocese, the first visit by a Pope to the place where American Catholicism was born. Dan Wilson, 62, an insurance salesman, has tickets to a papal mass: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. And I personally admire the man and agree with...
...dream with a scroll bearing a diagram of death's arrow with the motto, "It pierces eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...
...visit entailed some personal risk, as Filipino authorities had warned of a possible terrorist attack on airlines during the pontiff's visit. (Last week, they arrested a man after finding bomb-making materials in a nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb-sniffing dogs around the Papal Nunciature and even examined boxes of chocolates carried by nuns. The pontiff, undeterred, told the throng the church in the Philippines has "a special vocation" to spread Christianity among the ancient cultures of Asia...