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...wore to the opening of The Battle of the River Plate in 1956, where she met Marilyn Monroe. Also in the exhibition is the full-length black lace dress with matching veil the Queen wore in keeping with papal protocol, when she met Pope John XXIII at the Vatican...
...Such observations could only be made by men who have no significant relationships with women." FRANCES KISSLING, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, on a Vatican document released last week denouncing feminism for threatening the institution of the family
...think of life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...Vatican is a place where almost every fact has already logged weeks as rumor. But when Portland, Ore., Archbishop John Vlazny announced last week that he was taking his legally besieged archdiocese into Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("The pot of gold is pretty much empty," he contended), the Holy See was genuinely stunned. A senior Vatican official remained convinced Vlazny was bluffing until a wire-service story was read to him. Others confirm that two years ago, Bernard Cardinal Law was denied permission to do the same thing when he was Boston Archbishop. They suspect Vlazny asked no one's leave...
APPOINTED. BERNARD CARDINAL LAW, by the Vatican, to become the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Law was forced to resign in 2002 as head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston after numerous revelations of sexual abuse involving members of his clergy...