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...Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Zaïre, Kenya and, this week, to a final stop in Muslim Morocco. As in two previous African journeys, in 1980 and 1982, the turnouts were exuberant, totaling more than 1 million in Zaïre alone. Says Cameroon's President Paul Biya, himself a Roman Catholic: "The Pope loves Africa, and Africa loves the Pope...
From the riddle of the Annunciation to the bloody sacrifice on Good Friday, the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church reverberate with two riveting forms of drama: the mystery play and the horror show. The complementary doctrines of faith and expiation set the tone for an ageold debate. To the faithful, the church is a magisterial edifice built on the miracle of mankind's redemption by a loving God made flesh. To the cynical atheist, it is a cult based on transcendental cannibalism: the belief that one can achieve salvation by literally consuming God in the form of the Eucharist...
Armero had become a ghostly wasteland of gray mud pockmarked with the jutting remains of houses, automobiles, trees and sometimes dead bodies. The government planned to have the Roman Catholic Church declare the area a "holy ground," meaning that more than 20,000 corpses would probably remain forever entombed under the hardening mass of volcanic ash, sand and clay. Health Minister Rafael de Zubiria expressed concern over potential outbreaks of disease, though he emphasized that there was no sign of epidemics...
...rise times and periods of visibility, the researchers report in the journal Nature, they were able to identify Sirius, which Gregory called Rubeola or Robeola, meaning "red" or "rusty." They point out that because Gregory did not use the classical names of the stars, he was probably unaware of Roman and Greek astronomy. Therefore, the Ruhr team concluded, Sirius looked red no more than 1,400 years ago. Yet only 400 years later, when the Arab astronomer Al Sufi categorized all the stars named by Ptolemy, he did not list Sirius among the red ones. Sometime during that interval...
Summer is the spritzing season, and this year more water than ever is flowing onto the market--for drinking, for fighting acne and even for jet-lag relief. Chantecaille's aromatherapy Flower Waters, far right, come in scents like Wild Blackberry Bush and Roman Chamomile. Shu Uemura's Foaming Cleansing Water, right, uses the brand's signature mineral-rich Depsea Water. And for old-fashioned types who still prefer to drink the stuff, Borba offers six calorie-free waters in flavors like pomegranate and litchi that treat skin problems from the inside out. But at $30 for 12 bottles, this...