Word: vatican
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Vault in the Vatican. Her love of art helped sever her from the stern Lutheranism that her father preached by the sword. Contrary to the religious statutes of her country, Christina converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
Christina befriended the Italian sculptor Bernini, set up her own art center in 1674 called the Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having...
...first time since the end of the Civil War in 1939, Spain's Roman Catholic hierarchy has issued a joint pastoral letter to the faithful. The 38-page letter, redefining the relations between church and state in the light of the Second Vatican Council, spoke out for political and economic freedom within Spain, but also urged Catholics to avoid politicking in the name of the church and asked for "moderation" in seeking reforms. It was unmistakably designed to calm down the turmoil that has led Vatican officials to speak openly about Spanish Catholicism being in a state of crisis...
...influential lay leaders, and almost half of its 34,500 priests, are under 40. Many of the priests are of working-class origin, and feel strongly that the church has lost touch with the mass es. They accuse the hierarchy of doing little to implement the reforms of Vatican II, and generally regard Franco's authoritarianism as incompatible with the council's declarations on political freedom and liberty of conscience...
...Padre Agostino." Some Vatican conservatives contend that Casaroli is too soft as a negotiator, concedes too much to the other side. The Yugoslav agreement, for instance, refers to "terrorism and analogous forms of political violence" that were allegedly committed by Catholic priests during World War II in Yugoslavia. Casaroli readily admits that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that...