Word: rome
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Guercino worked in an age when, although the mechanisms of fame were becoming more centralized, it was still possible to sustain a life's work on a provincial reputation. He lived in Emilia most of his life. But Rome was the great magnet, and he almost made it to the Roman big time when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died...
...your way to the MFA, take an interestingdetour at the world headquarters of the FirstChurch of Christ, Scientist (T: Symphony). The19th century Mother Church is to ChristianScientists what St. Peter's in Rome is toCatholics...
...pages of written testimony and amassed opinions from 75,000 women in all. The text has been revised several times, with drafts made public and debated in 1988 and 1990. The Vatican, leery of the discussion's direction, insisted that representatives from the U.S. hierarchy attend a conference in Rome last year to hear out papal advisers and bishops from 13 other nations on women's issues...
...criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls, which Rome rules out and American parishes routinely permit. Long gone is the suggestion of serious discussion about women as priests; instead, the ban is restated...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...