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When the event, which did not make most American TV news shows, finally took place in the Pontifical Institute of Notre Dame, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau sent a murmur through the crowd by claiming, falsely, that the Pope had recognized Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Tamimi's presentation, delivered in...
QUENTIN CRISP once paid me the grand, pontifical compliment that I was "his representative here on earth." This referred to my having played him in the film of his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. At the time, Quentin was untraveled and 60 years old. He referred to the latter part...
Christians and Jews alike are fascinated with the prospect that POPE JOHN PAUL II will make his first visit to Israel to mark the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth in A.D. 2000. The Pope is ardently interested, but plans have long been entangled in politics and diplomacy. Now the...
Roger Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray -- who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit...
And there are other challenges to overcome. The film's profit potential will be hampered because the seriousness of the subject matter has wiped out any hope for lucrative merchandising deals and Happy Meals. There will be no burning-bush night-lights. The filmmakers must also tread carefully to avoid...