Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded by Rome's aldermen...
...seen her, except for a grim two-day visit, since she went to Italy in March to make a "different" movie. "Lolly" Parsons' story was two days old before anyone penetrated the Roman seclusion of Ingrid and Director Rossellini. Then the New York Times's studious Vatican correspondent, Camille M. Cianfarra, interviewed them in Ingrid's apartment. While the Swedish actress poured strong black coffee, Reporter Cianfarra managed to ask whether she was to become a mother early next year...
...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...
While looking into the phenomenon, the Vatican forbade him to hear confessions or officiate at any public occasion. Only after two years of painstaking investigation by doctors and others, did the church finally lift the ban on the grounds of: 1) "the undoubted presence" of the stigmata; 2) Padre Pio's holy way of life from childhood; 3) proof that "miracles have happened in the presence of Padre...
...wrote love letters to her (mostly in French) in his own round hand-and 17 of them mysteriously disappeared. History's assumption: they were stolen and smuggled out of England by Henry's political enemies. In any event, they soon turned up at the Vatican, to be exhibited as evidence that rebellious Henry had misbehaved while still married to wife No. i, Katherine of Aragon. Now, with the political issues cooled by some 400 years, Editor-Historian Henry Savage has gotten Vatican permission to publish them, along with a few other extant letters between Henry and his several...