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DIED. GIORGIO BASSANI, 84, acclaimed Italian author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962), a haunting, semiautobiographical novel of an aristocratic Jewish family's illusory attempts to take refuge from the Fascists in a walled villa; in Rome...
Hadid's upcoming projects include Contemporary Arts Centers for Cincinnati and Rome and a ski-jump in Innsbruck, Austria...
Whom will the College of Cardinals elect to follow this extraordinary Pope? Not likely an American. U.S. Catholicism is seen as out of step with Rome--too worldly, too liberal, too full of dissent and disobedience. Forty percent of the Cardinals who will elect the next Pope are from developing nations, and there has been speculation that the next Pope could come from the growing ranks of African or Latin American bishops. But don't count on it. Says Father Richard McBrien, former chairman of the department of theology at Notre Dame: "The next Pope will be an Italian Cardinal...
...spots where Jesus may have been baptized; offered Mass from the site of Christ's Sermon on the Mount; climbed the steps to the upper room where tradition places the Last Supper; prayed at Gethsemane, where Jesus was betrayed; and, just before flying back to Rome, celebrated Mass again at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site at which Catholics and the Eastern churches believe Jesus was buried and resurrected. (Protestants believe Jesus rose from the nearby Garden Tomb...
...church has chosen an odd replacement. On Sept. 3, along with John, it plans to beatify Pope PIUS IX. The earlier Pius had the longest reign in history (1846-78), but he plagued Rome's Jews, repealing civil rights and forcing them back into the ghetto. He also had a role in the kidnapping of a Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara, who had been baptized by a Catholic servant. Despite an international outcry, Pius acted as a surrogate father to the child, who later became a priest. Italian Jews are nonplussed. "The beatification of Pius IX exalts a symbol that...