Word: vaticans
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...teeming with hundreds of characters, it throbs with violence, heroism, betrayal and sex. The main character, who often changes his name to escape death, witnesses Martin Luther declaiming at Wittenberg, fights in religious wars across Europe and has sex very, very often. His nemesis, Q, a spy for the Vatican, stalks him for more than 30 years, thwarting his vision of a heavenly kingdom on earth, though not his vision of heavenly sex. "We deserve the warmth of baths," the hero concludes in an Istanbul spa after a life of struggle. "May the days be aimless. Do not advance...
Opus Dei is what is called a “personal prelature” of the Catholic Church—an entity under the jurisdiction of the Vatican but separate from regional dioceses. In 1982, Pope John Paul II approved the creation of the personal prelature as a new kind of organization in the Church expressly for the purpose of defining Opus Dei. Three popes prior to John Paul had denied Opus Dei this status...
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII, put on his steel-rimmed spectacles and spoke for 38 minutes, after which his invitees went on for three more years. John died after the first session of the Second Vatican Council, but his ideal of the church's aggiornamento, or updating, flowered in unforeseen ways. By the council's end, the bishops turned the priest toward his flock during Mass and allowed its celebration in local languages, concluded it was not the Jews who killed Jesus, and in 16 hotly debated documents wrestled an all-too-medieval institution toward modernity. The wrestling goes...
...then, all conventions were out the window. The introduction of the birth control pill on May 9, 1960, had unleashed the sexual revolution. Pope John XXIII led an ambitious attempt to modernize the Roman Catholic Church when he convened Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962. The Beatles heralded not only a change in music but also the arrival of the youth movement when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. By Aug. 15, 1969, the revolution was in full swing when thousands of young people gathered in upstate New York for the Woodstock festival...
...anyone lucky enough to be in the vicinity of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art over the next nine weeks (through March 30) can readily check it out. "Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman" opened last week, with nearly 120 drawings and a single barely unfinished painting, the Vatican's anguished St. Jerome Praying in the Wilderness. Assembled from collections all over Europe, Britain and the U.S., it is a prodigious curatorial achievement by Carmen Bambach and George Goldner, curator and chairman, respectively, of the Metropolitan's Department of Drawings and Prints. (Hercules himself could hardly be expected...