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...obstacle is that the Temple must be constructed on its original site; this could only be done by demolishing Islam's sacred Dome of the Rock, the spot from which Mohammed ascended into heaven. Despite their enmity with Arab nations, devout Jews would be reluctant to destroy the shrine of another faith...
Nonetheless last week, on its 50th anniversary, Pope Paul VI became the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the shrine of Fátima. The "spiritual motive" of his fourth papal journey outside Italy,* Paul announced, was to seek Mary's "intercession in favor of the peace of the church and of the world." The Vatican denied suggestions that the Pope was also making amends to Portugal for his visit to India following its conquest of Portuguese Goa, insisting that the trip would be "completely private" and "rapidissimo." Despite the disclaimer, the Portuguese were ecstatic...
...Peculiar Ideologies." Traveling aboard a Portuguese Airways Caravelle, the Pope landed at a military airfield near Monte Real, delivered a short speech on arrival, and rode in an open-topped black Rolls-Royce 25 miles to the Fátima shrine, where he celebrated Mass before a crowd estimated at 700,000. In an address, Paul called for a "united church." At the same time, he issued another warning against what he deems doctrinal excesses in church renewal. The Ecumenical Council, he said, "has opened up new vistas in the field of doctrine." And yet: "What terrible damage could...
...quarter of a century under the command of the late Henri Soulé, Manhattan's Le Pavilion was the shrine of haute cuisine in the U.S. Hélas, since Restaurateur Soulé's death last year, the eatery has slipped a bit-at least to the palate of the New York Times's fastidious Gastronome Craig Claiborne, who dropped in a few times to see how the fare was faring under the new management of sometime Hotelman Claude Philippe. Aside from the prices ($173.90 for a relatively modest dinner for six) Claiborne sadly reported that...
...sequence that has caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties: an escape tunnel beneath the village huts, a cache of arms buried under the little shrine of a phi spirit house, which all but Thai Communists might consider sacrosanct. The Thais value their tough training all the more because each graduating company is immediately sent into the northeast to meet the real foe face to face...