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Vidal also maintains a spacious apartment in Rome but spends less and less time there. He is friendly with journalists and occasionally sees such fellow novelists as Anthony Burgess and Muriel Spark. Curiously for the author of Julian and a man who considers Christianity "the single greatest disaster that has...
Died. Enrico Josi, 90, world-renowned archaeologist; in Rome. A professor at Rome's Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology from 1925 to 1970, Josi took part in dozens of digs through Italy's catacombs and ancient graveyards in search of relics of early Christianity, most notably the 1939...
Room 906 of the Superior Court is a drab, lofty-ceilinged room constructed with a kind of austere efficiency, doing away with the symbolic bar which might have dignified counsel, but fastidiously erecting pontifical stations for the court officers, where the gavel-equipped crew has achieved a sort of porcine...
Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism?the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"?as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis...
The miracle of the virginal conception of Jesus is another problematic sign. Luke's account of the Nativity clearly means to underline Jesus' humanity: the shepherds, the humble surroundings, the hardships, the very fact of birth. The idea that he was born of a virgin, however, signifies an extraordinary event...