Word: rome
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COVERING the Vatican," says Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "is a challenge. Almost never is it possible to go to an official source, to ask a straight question and get a straight answer. You have to find sources you can trust, and then you have to convince the sources that they can trust...
...unusual request was dispatched to Pope Paul seven weeks ago, and was made public by the senders because-perhaps understandably-it had not been answered by Rome. In their eight-page, 2,000-word letter, the priests charged that there was a "communications gap" between Lucey and his clerics, which had resulted in "an atmosphere of fear, alienation and dissatisfaction on the part of many priests." Citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence...
Last week a chancery spokesman announced that the archbishop was "too grieved and heartsick over the matter to discuss it." Evidently, he has nothing to fear from Rome. Shortly after the priests' petition was mailed, Lucey received a letter from Pope Paul bestowing his "specific apostolic blessing" on the archbishop...
...emotional defense of Jackie by Cushing-who had presided at her first wedding in 1953 and at John Kennedy's funeral ten years later-was not very well received in Rome either. Before Cushing spoke out, the Vatican's chief press officer, Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, had expressed the church's official view that Jackie had "knowingly violated the law of the church" and was ineligible to receive the sacraments. Although reluctant to dispute a cardinal, Vatican theologians simply reiterated their interpretation of the church's law after Cushing's statement...
...inspiration at the Olympics," says Oerter. It is an inspiration that has driven him to triumph over his own physical limitations. Not once has Oerter gone to an Olympics as a favorite. In 1956 at Melbourne, the U.S.'s Fortune Gordien was picked to win; in 1960 at Rome, Rink Babka, another American, expected to take the gold medal; in 1964 at Tokyo, CzechoSlovakia's Ludvik Danek was the reigning world recordholder. Last week the man to beat was the U.S.'s Jay Silvester, who only a month before had broken the world mark with a prodigious...