Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a loss to Cornell which no one noticed, Boston's attention focused on wisps of smoke above the Vatican and the elevation of Cardinal Cushing--events which monopolized local front pages as to tempt readers to forget the Reformation had ever taken place. Occasionally politics managed to break into the headlines. Senator Kennedy returned to Cambridge, and, in an attempt to capture the "outer fringe" vote, dined with Councilman Al Vellucci...
...savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah is an infidel...
...VATICAN CITY, Jan. 25--Pope John XXIII Sunday summoned an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church aimed at uniting the Christian forces of the world...
...wording of the Vatican statement indicated that Christian churches outside the Roman Catholic Church may be invited to participate in the council...
...Vatican attitude, as one diplomat put it, "could theoretically lead to a better atmosphere between the church and Communism. The first move, though, must come from the Communists." The church's price is likely to be high, involving vastly increased religious and educational freedom in Communist countries...