Word: rome
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...peak vacation is a fable of compromises and calculations. On the one hand, there are bargains everywhere: Pan Am has a $398 round trip to London; Alitalia offers five nights in Rome for $99. On average, hotel and air-travel prices can be as much as 30% lower off-season. The trade-off, of course, comes in weather that ranges from unpredictable to appalling. While some resort towns remain mild well into the fall, northern cities turn gray and damp, and a visit requires a victory of mind over weather. The great galleries and cathedrals are often hushed and wonderfully...
American homosexual activists call the dreaded document the "Halloween letter." The directive, issued by the Vatican's doctrinal congregation on Oct. 30, 1986, was approved by Pope John Paul and dispatched to all Roman Catholic bishops around the world. In it, Rome ordered them to withdraw support from any organization that is either "ambiguous" or opposed to the church's teaching that homosexual behavior is sinful. Any hint of endorsement for gay liberation groups, warned Rome, "can be gravely misinterpreted." In particular, allowing them to meet in Catholic churches or schools was deemed "misleading and often scandalous...
...Vatican's main target in the U.S. was Dignity, an organization for gay Catholics that had been allowed to hold special Masses in many dioceses. Prodded by the San Francisco chapter, one of Dignity's largest (250 members), Dignity's next national convention responded defiantly to Rome, declaring that "gay and lesbian people can express their sexuality physically, in a unitive manner that is loving, life-giving and life-affirming...
...Rome's ruling and Dignity's equally blunt response forced the hand of the U.S. hierarchy. Since then, 20 of the country's 187 dioceses have banished Dignity meetings from church premises. Among dioceses with large homosexual populations, the last holdout was San Francisco. But early in November that city's Archbishop, John Quinn, finally summoned the local Dignity leaders to a polite showdown. When they stood by their gay-is-good policy, he informed them that Dec. 18 will mark the last in a 15-year series of Sunday-night Dignity Masses in the city's Catholic churches. Last...
London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro, Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...