Word: romes
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However, even liberals have sympathy for Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. "I just love him," says Barry. "I know he's in the hot seat because he has to keep Rome happy, but I really respect him." Kenneally commends Bernardin for not making his own job more difficult. "It would be tough under some of the other bishops, but Bernardin believes that pastors are the ones in the trenches, and he lets us do our job," he says. "He's extraordinarily sensitive." Says Bernardin: "No good bishop would want any of his priests to experience a burnout...
...vary Marx's formulation slightly, history repeats itself -- the first time as an enchanting evening of song, the second time as an example of extreme bad taste and lazy greed. What was wonderful in Rome in 1990 was awful in L.A. as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sight-read their way through arias and show tunes on a set that included a waterfall. And no, the Brindisi from La Traviata -- the sequel's intended Nessun dorma -- did not fly to the top of the charts...
Indisputably a newsmaker, Pope John Paul II can be a reluctant man in the news. It tells you something that he admires Pius IX, the 19th century Pope who withdrew into his palace after Italy seized from the Vatican both Rome and the papal states. Reclusive is no word for John Paul, but the widely traveled figure whom TIME has made Man of the Year is still deeply and deliberately private. Meaning someone who almost never grants on-the-record interviews. Meaning, journalistically, a tough nut to crack...
...morning of Dec. 7 in Rome, a group of TIME editors and correspondents confronted that challenge firsthand. They were glumly assembled in expectation of a papal audience they would share with roughly 7,000 others. Days earlier, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls had reluctantly informed Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton that His Holiness would decline TIME's request for a private meeting. While pleased to be chosen as Man of the Year, John Paul didn't wish to appear to have collaborated on the project. The Time team could have front-row seats at one of the Pope's massive...
...words, even from a man whose words have global authority, was hardly what the TIME journalists had in mind. Nevertheless, executive editor Jim Kelly, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and Sancton, who had all been attending a London meeting of TIME's foreign correspondents, flew to Rome. There they joined TIME reporter Greg Burke and former Rome bureau chief Wilton Wynn, a veteran of Vatican coverage and a consultant for this project...