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History's most famous diet-Worms -is having its 450th anniversary this week, and Roman Catholics in that town on the Rhine have appealed to Pope Paul VI to say a good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...
...brilliant performance by Gian Maria Volonte as the tough Roman cop who slits the exquisite throat of his mistress to test his own power against the State's justice...
...consider such issues, Roman Catholic Lay Theologian Daniel Callahan and a number of like-minded ethicists and scientists have set up the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. Among the 70 members are Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, Theologian John C. Bennett, and U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, who three years ago introduced a bill to establish an interdisciplinary committee to examine new scientific problems. It did not pass, but Mondale is trying again this year. "There may still be time," he says, "to establish some ground rules...
Other spoils of Berenson's Italian conquests include Raphael's Pieta and a portrait of a Roman Count, a Guardi scene of Venice, Botticelli's Madonna and Child, Giotto's Jesus, Fra Angelico's Assumption, etc. Few museums equal the Gardner's extensive collection of Italian masters. But Berenson was not to stop at conquering Italian walls; sensing Mrs. Jack's interest in a bargain, he induced her to buy Durer, Holbein, Rubens, and Rembrandt...
They are members of Opus Dei, a worldwide association of Roman Catholic lay people whose message to individuals-particularly professional people-is a sort of Catholic moral rearmament. Based in Spain, Opus Dei now claims a membership of over 60,000 men and women in 69 countries, including 2000 Americans...