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John Moody, our Rome bureau chief, covered the Vatican for this week's story and found it a complicated test of wills. "Approaching the Vatican is in itself an exercise in diplomacy. The Pope's urbane and practiced spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, initially considered our questions. After that came various monsignors who act as buffers for the Cardinals." Moody came to realize that the Vatican does not act quickly, when it comes to either social change or the needs of weekly journalism. He notes, "They have been at it for 2,000 years and know the art of prevailing through...
...Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, the story had a nostalgic resonance. Bonfante was assigned to Rome in 1978 when, he remembers, "I covered three Popes in a single year: Paul VI, who died in August; John Paul I, who lived only 34 days; and John Paul II, the current Pontiff. I came to regard the Vatican as a second country we had to cover on a daily basis." For this story, he talked to leaders of the public debate. He then went to local churches and found the discussion in the pews just as intense...
HEAVEN MAY OFFER THE SWEETEST REWARDS, BUT AT TIMES they are difficult for mere mortals to imagine. Visiting a parish in Rome this month, POPE JOHN PAUL II explained a key difference between heaven and earth: on the far side of the pearly gates, there is no sex. Residents of paradise need no mates, said the Pontiff, because "they are like the angels...
Just as interested are the American Catholic bishops gathering in Washington. For nine years they have tried to produce a coherent document on women to straddle the demands of conservatives in Rome and of feminists in the U.S. At issue is everything from whether women can serve as priests or deacons to whether sexism is "sin." Among the characterizations of the bishops' efforts: "almost laughable" (from the angry left), "an embarrassment" (from the angry right). The document has been diluted so thoroughly that reformers hope that the hierarchy will throw it out and start all over again...
Think about it--Harvard's name is known around the globe. It is splashed across sweatshirts in Rome and scrawled on baseball caps in Mexico. It graces stockholder lists in almost every market, from petroleum to french bread. Harvard is the cradle of presidents, the cocktail club of intellectuals, the haven of Nobel laureates...