Word: vatican
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...line in that processional,/ Step into that small confessional,/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." There was a time (circa 1955) when The Vatican Rag caused frissons and merriment all around the campus- circuit. Songwriter Tom Lehrer was a Harvard math professor who could do numbers on anything from sex to the Bomb. But satire is a parasitical art, no stronger than its host. Folk singers, the. military, Freud and faith, all have been familiar targets for over a generation. Today Tomfoolery, a chrestomathy of 28 Lehrer hits...
...Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) "not only did not condemn nuclear deterrence weapon systems, but said that deterrence had made a specific contribution to peace...
...Polish crisis continued to escalate, President Reagan took time Tuesday to meet a Vatican-sponsored delegation headed by Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, that urged an increased effort to abolish nuclear weapons. The meeting was the first of several that will take place between emissaries of Pope John Paul II and leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. Hiatt and three other experts told the president that casualties from a single megaton explosion in Washington, D.C., would overwhelm the area's medical facilities, a suggestion Reagan reportedly did not dispute. Hiatt said...
...meeting was the first of several emissaries of Pope John Paul II plan with leaders of four of the five recognized nuclear powers. As in the discussion with Reagan, representatives of the Pontifical Academy of Scientists will join the Vatican delegation...
Reagan accepted the message as a "statement of moral concern," David Baltimore, professor of biology at MIT and a member of the Vatican group, said last night, adding that the president seemed to clearly understand "that a nuclear exchange would mean the end of the world as we know...