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Pontifical secrecy? Papal wiretaps? It all sounds strangely familiar.
The rules listed a wide range of matters falling within the classification of "pontifical secret," and called for "appropriate sanctions," including excommunication, to be applied to violators. The strictest secrecy is imposed on "all those who have culpably gained knowledge of documents or questions protected by pontifical secret or who...
Arriving in Rome, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists did just what the Romans do. Dressed in his official violet robe, the Dalai Lama went to see the Pope. His offerings: a portrait and his own biography of Buddha. In return Paul VI gave the Dalai Lama a...
? Within the Pope's own bailiwick, a veteran moral philosopher disobeyed Arrupe. A faculty member of the Jesuits' prestigious Gregorian Pontifical University since 1961, Father José Maria Diez-Alegria set off the squabble last December by publishing his autobiography, I Believe in Hope, without Jesuit clearance. The book is...
Her enemies-there is an ample supply-dismiss her as vulgar, venal, vindictive and untrustworthy, a puffball of bluff. Even some friends regard her with the affectionate respect that they might accord a pet barracuda. "The first time she asked me to a party," remembers Client Dyan Cannon, "she said...