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...appearances--from the shuffling steps and slurred sermons of last month's trip to Azerbaijan and Bulgaria to his abbreviated meeting at the Vatican last week with President George Bush--speculation has grown that John Paul II may be too enfeebled to continue leading the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics...
...first studied at Oxford, staying to become a fellow, then a medieval history lecturer and finally a university reader in late Roman and early Byzantine studies. He also worked at the University of London before moving to the United States and becoming the Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley...
...obstacles. In 1998 Minnesota attorney Jeffrey Anderson sued the diocese in Stockton, Calif., on behalf of two brothers who had been sexually abused. Anderson discovered--in the middle of the trial, when he happened to rephrase a question posed to the diocese comptroller--that the diocese operated the separate Roman Catholic Welfare Corp., worth an estimated $400 million. But it was too late to add another defendant to the suit and too expensive to start a new trial. A jury awarded $29 million to Anderson's clients, but the diocese, pleading poverty, managed to have the judgment reduced...
Current headlines might give the impression that the Roman Catholic Church has a lot on its plate these days, but last week the Vatican's tirelessly vigilant Fides news service found time to publish an editorial chastising celebrities for wearing fancy crosses. The opinion piece, "A Matter of Coherence," observed, "There is a spreading fashion of wearing crosses decorated with diamonds and other precious stones." It cites JENNIFER ANISTON and NAOMI CAMPBELL, among others. "Is it consistent with the Gospel," the article asked, "to spend millions on a copy of the sacred symbol of the Christian faith and perhaps forget...
...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...