Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rome reacted almost as if the Pope himself had run off with Gina Lollobrigida. The respected Roman daily Il Messaggero wondered ungallantly (and, as it turned out, incorrectly) whether the priest's prospective bride might be pregnant. Priests in the vicariate clucked disapprovingly about Musante's strange behavior these past few months. "Many of us were convinced," said one primly, "that Monsignor Musante was a sick man. Recently he didn't seem him self at all. Perhaps he was the victim of some form of sexual delirium." The most notable change in Musante: he re cently went...
...father, bumbling through his own petty confusion. My favorite in the show was Johnny Armen as the Indian, Mortimer. Dressed in long underwear, tennis shoes, and an Indian wig, he played the evil forces of the world that ensnarl the boy and girl--an Egyptian, a Venetian, a Roman, and a Pirate (as well as the Rapist's Assistant). While he whips the boy in one of the tableau scenes, he keeps looking out at the audience, smiling, winking, and waving as he flails. This is the mixture of satire and romance that moves the play...
When Pope Paul VI sits down at breakfast, the newspaper clippings and reports in front of him have been prepared and organized by Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. When there is a sudden crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, the man who rushes to the papal chambers with the message is Archbishop Benelli. When a cardinal prefect of a curial congregation wishes to see the Pope, his appointment is arranged-or postponed-by the same Benelli. And when President Richard Nixon helicoptered into St. Peter's Square two weeks ago, who was there to greet him officially but Giovanni Benelli...
...Pope Paul have thrust him into such prominence that Benelli is, in effect, the Pope's Prime Minister. His role originated in Paul's sweeping reform of the Curia 18 months ago, when the Vatican Secretary of State was awarded, ex officio, special responsibilities in the Roman Curia, the church's administrative body. In theory, these duties were entrusted to Secretary of State Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, who at the age of 86 can only put in half a day's work. In practice, the job has fallen to Cicognani's sostituto, or deputy, Giovanni Benelli...
...stayed on. They were treated as human beings by their foster families at a time when the mentally ill almost everywhere else were banished from society to asylums of appalling squalor and cruelty. Originally, Geel's boarding system for the mentally ill was supervised by officials of the Roman Catholic Church; since 1860, the Belgian government has had the responsibility of screening the patients and administering the program...