Word: rome
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...first, their song went almost unheard. The tumult of voices and laughter and a steady stream of worshippers spilling out of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a crowd happy at the end of the Easter Vigil and the resurrection of their Lord, at first obscured the crowd of joyful singers. As they sang and danced in celebration, they offered hands and made spaces for the growing throng of onlookers. My friends and I were soon drawn into the circle. Those baptized and received into the Church by Pope John Paul II himself that night, were of every race...
Every year many pilgrims continue the tradition. When I went to Rome during Holy Week to join the Easter celebrations, my happiness extended beyond my dreams of the Yankees winning the World Series. To those who make the journey, this Holy City offers reasons for faith. Pilgrims can visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran and climb (on their knees) the "Holy Steps" of Pontius Pilate's palace which Jesus traversed several times on the day he was condemned and crucified. Less dominating, but more profound, in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, large pieces of the crosses...
...finally reached Broadway. It wasn't the quotidian Broadway of Dollar-a-Pound and the Sackler Museum; no, this one reaches like some avenue of heroes from Charlestown to Arlington, linking those thriving metropolices as the Appian Way once linked Rome and some other city. It was at this point I was running out of steam; maybe it was Lorentzen's 14 points weighing me down, dragging me back. I didn't know, but I fought on. There was Medford to the left of me; Medford to the right--I smiled at the choice made for me. I knew where...
...Bacon is a trustee of the Folger Shakespeare Library 2 Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar 3 Caesar ruled Rome 4 Rome put Pontius Pilate in charge of Israel 5 Pontius Pilate had Christ crucified...
...someone who knows air regulations--where the creed was always "air safety"--and as a man who has always been a sincere friend of the American people, I must admit that the trial result of Marine pilot Richard Ashby hit me like a punch in the stomach. WERNER ROMANELLO Rome...