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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were even more alluring. As head of the Church of England, Charles can only marry an Anglican. Would he renounce his throne for Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous: No. In fact, Charles, now on naval duty in the Far East, and Caroline, a student at a Paris convent school, have never met. -:Admirers of the 1930s movie Ecstasy liked...
...refer to the Devil, demonic possession and exorcism as subjects that "would have embarrassed thinking Roman Catholics." Why? They may have bothered pseudo sophisticates, but not believing Catholics. It is a matter of definition: a Catholic is one who subscribes to "these and all the truths which the Roman Catholic Church teaches" and not one who believes selectively...
...Neill attended Roman Catholic schools. He was a casual student and, though he kept getting elected captain of his teams, an awkward athlete. Even so, local lore has it that he got his nickname as a young boy from one James Edward O'Neill, who batted an eye-popping .492 for the old St. Louis Browns in 1887. Those were the days when bases on balls were counted as hits in players' averages, and O'Neill was renowned for "tipping." off so many pitches that hurlers eventually walked...
...agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person...
...support of women's right to end unwanted pregnancies. In downtown Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display of bad taste that could only weaken their case, the demonstrators crowned a woman "Pope," who issued a mocking benediction to the crowd that had assembled...