Word: rome
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...flock. Most American believers have long gone their own way regarding birth control or abortion. But that is not an option when it comes to who celebrates the sacraments, even though 71% of American Catholics surveyed in a May 2000 Gallup poll favored having female priests. Still, Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared his decision "infallible" and "not...open to debate." The gag order, even more than the edict, drove church liberals...
...much so that Chittister, 65, found a way to flout it that the Vatican could not ignore. The tussle began last spring, when Rome learned that the resident of the Mount St. Benedict monastery in Erie, Pa., had agreed to address the first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept...
...made it clear that he wants to be re-elected next year, and that he has a home along the river, in Garrison, N.Y. It did not help Pataki's mood that he felt slighted after lobbying Bush for a friend to be chosen for the ambassadorial posting in Rome, only to be brushed...
...getting ready to hurl a fire extinguisher at a police Land Rover trapped against a wall. Inside the van, a police officer can be seen aiming a pistol at the demonstrator. One, possibly two shots were fired; Carlo Giuliani, 23, the son of a labor union official from Rome, fell, bleeding through his ski mask from a wound to the head. The van ran him over as it backed away, and Giuliani died...
...haute couture schedule was Yves Saint Laurent. Not the Yves Saint Laurent that held a bash for a new perfume, Nu, featuring nearly-naked dancers in a transparent tube. Not the YSL that clothed newly-single Nicole Kidman at Cannes and Claudia Schiffer at a Bulgari party in Rome. That was all the work of Gucci Group, which acquired the Saint Laurent ready-to-wear and beauty brands in 1999. No, wrapping up the haute couture shows was Yves Saint Laurent himself. When Gucci chief Domenico De Sole bought YSL, haute couture wasn't part of the deal. After...