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...Peter's Basilica in Rome, the words are inscribed in gold in the cupola, the key argument that the papacy was founded by Jesus himself when he made Peter the head of his church. But does that long-contested biblical verse in fact mean what Roman Catholics traditionally take it to mean? Was Peter the first Pope? Are his successors the ultimate earthly authority in Christendom? In a new study, Peter in the New Testament, an investigative group of eleven Roman Catholic, Lutheran and other Protestant scripture experts issue a cautious demurrer. The scholars agree that the controversial passage...
...study, to be published jointly by Augsburg Publishing House and Paulist Press in September, is a part of an eight-year-old, officially sanctioned dialogue between Lutherans and Roman Catholics over issues that divide the two communions. The talks have already produced documents on Lutheran and Roman Catholic approaches to the Nicene Creed, baptism, the Eucharist and priestly ministry, all of which show remarkable basic agreement. The study on Peter, along with an examination of the development of the papacy in early church history, will provide background for the next major document, on the primacy and authority of the Pope...
Some of his friends reported that he was habitually short of cash. Though other friends denied it, the story interested suspicious Roman police when they learned that he had even joked about solving his financial problems by arranging his own "perfect kidnaping," which police noted was curiously similar in plot to the one in the movie Travels with My Aunt, currently playing in Rome. The night he disappeared he was seen having an argument with a blonde Belgian go-go dancer in the Piazza Navona, where hippies gather. She resisted his passes and he stormed away, yelling back an Italian...
Some of Weese's restoration jobs-notably Chicago's huge, Greco-Roman Field Museum of Natural History, its Newberry Library and Orchestra Hall-involve what he calls "good housekeeping." He makes no major structural changes, but he reorganizes layouts and adds air conditioning and modern lighting. The point: to keep old buildings useful, and so to give them new life...
...Horner, as a result of unbridled whoring in France, contracted venereal disease and was castrated by the French physician treating him. Thus Horner, horny as ever, can easily cuckold unsuspecting husbands who believe him capable only of platonic friendships. (The device of the phoney impotent comes from the ancient Roman Eunuchus by Terence, who in turn took it from a lost Greek original by Menander...