Word: romes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been remarkably successful as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. Pittsburgh's Bishop John J. Wright, one of the most articulate theologians in the U.S. hierarchy, played a significant role in shaping several documents of Vatican II. He will return to Rome to an as yet unannounced post in the Curia...
Pretty soon they'll be calling him "Danny the Bourgeois." The word from Italy is that Danny ("the Red") Cohn-Bendit, 24, the fiery young radical who last year led fellow students into the streets of Paris, is prancing around Rome engaging in more conventional pastimes. Now he makes the nightclub scene with a dazzling French blonde in tow, is rumored to be spending his days scripting a film for Jean-Luc Godard and working on a second book to complement his recently published Obsolete Communism. It's all so middle-class that he was recently boycotted...
...Rome reacted almost as if the Pope himself had run off with Gina Lollobrigida. The respected Roman daily Il Messaggero wondered ungallantly (and, as it turned out, incorrectly) whether the priest's prospective bride might be pregnant. Priests in the vicariate clucked disapprovingly about Musante's strange behavior these past few months. "Many of us were convinced," said one primly, "that Monsignor Musante was a sick man. Recently he didn't seem him self at all. Perhaps he was the victim of some form of sexual delirium." The most notable change in Musante: he re cently went...
...clamped a tight if belated lid on the story, brusquely denying the rumor that a Roman archbishop might perform the marriage ceremony. But before the week was out, church officials were forced to admit that two years ago, another high-ranking priest, the rector of a Jesuit college in Rome, had similarly been released from his vows by the Pope to marry...
...subject of all the buzz, he kept out of sight for 48 hours, then turned up in Rome with his wife-to-be. She is Giovanna Carlevaro, an attractive woman of 38, whom he met at a friend's house last November. They will be married "soon," said Musante, but the exact time and place is secret. What his new occupation will be, Musante does not yet. know. "In case of need, I would not hesitate at manual labor...