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...perhaps the most notable comfort that this cerebral pontiff offered his flock is his ever more pastoral persona. Entering a morning mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Benedict beamed as several thousand priests and nuns welcomed him with thunderous applause. As the mass ended, he spoke off-the-cuff, saying that the love expressed by the clergy helps him to overcome his own "spiritual poverty...
...ST. JUDE STATUE This gift from a supporter arrived just before McCain's political resurrection last August. The patron saint of desperate causes perches permanently at the edge of Davis' desk, in the exact spot it occupied when McCain started to surge...
...ST. LAWRENCE Outdated dam-management plan...
...ST. JOHNS Unsustainable water appropriations...
...Rome, only in 1576. But he spent the remaining 38 years of his life there, mostly in Toledo, and his high-key palette, flickering brushwork and twisted Mannerist figuration were perfectly suited to Spain's militant piety and the strain of Catholic mysticism spreading there through the writings of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross. A cooler, more classicizing artist would not have answered so well to the emerging Spanish taste for religious ecstasy...