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Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose views mirror the Pope's on most issues, isn't enamored of the artistic taste of the Vatican. When it named 45 films with worthy religious content, none were his. He fumed, "My films have brought about many more conversions than all those cited in this absurd list...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was a force behind the rise of John Paul II to the papacy and an adviser on financial matters...
...VATICAN CITY: The ancient walls of the Sistine Chapel, the site of the papal conclaves where the College of Cardinals secretly chooses a new pope will soon be guarded against sophisticated electronic eavesdropping. A new rule book for papal conclaves written by Pope John Paul II lays down new rules for the conclaves. Included in the new rules: checks to ensure that "no audiovisual equipment" has been secretly installed. John Paul's revision of the conclave rules is not unusual -- nearly every pope this century has made changes, and John Paul is unusually sensitive to new technologies. Under his auspices...
PARIS: Breaking from Vatican doctrine, the French Bishops Conference has broken with Rome, giving its reluctant approval of the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. In a 235-page report titled "AIDS: Society in Question," the bishops conceded that condoms may be a weapon of last resort against the spread of the fatal disease. TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton notes that the bishops were careful to stress teachings on the importance of monogamy within marriage and abstinence before. Of the French Catholics, Sancton notes: "They haven't been as rebellious as the Germans...
...soul of Tibet by making its own selection of the Panchen Lama, the second highest religious leader in Tibet [CHINA, Dec. 11]. This, no doubt, is similar to actions Hitler would have taken had he won the war. He would have subjugated Italy and attempted to destroy the Vatican, representing as it did a powerful competing entity. Failing to snuff out the devotion of European Catholics, the dictator would probably have tried picking cardinals and Popes as the next best thing. We can only wish the Chinese no luck at all in this outrageous effort to assert their power over...