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...POPE Vatican fails to exclude pro-choice Catholics from U.N. conference...
Ostling says a fast-modernizing Vatican has already issued the new encyclical online. Next: IBM is digitizing the Vatican's 1.5-million volume library in digital form to make its books and ancient manuscripts accessible via the Internet...
They are perhaps the world's best-loved instrumental group. For more than three decades, in exotic venues from the Vatican to the Great Wall of China, the Chieftains have played traditional Irish music--half a millennium's worth of jigs and reels--on such contraptions as the tiompan, the uilleann pipes, the bodhran and the tin whistle. The only instrument they lacked was a charismatic human voice. It's true that one band member, Kevin Conneff, was given to "singing the odd song now and again, when we let him," as the Chieftains' chief, Paddy Moloney, said...
Their music, so serene and intimate, can fill the biggest arenas. In 1979 they played before 1.35 million people in Dublin as an opening act for John Paul II. Later, the Pope had them play at his place. "After the Vatican show," Moloney recalls, "he gave us rosary beads. But we were a little disappointed he didn't invite us to stay for lunch--we were starved!--or for any of his Polish vodka...
Some feared that he'd never make it, but Pope John Paul II is headed for America after all. The Vatican said today that the 74-year-old pontiff would make a four-day trip to New York, Newark and Baltimore beginning Oct. 4, a year after he cancelled the same trip because of hip replacement surgery. After terrorist threats during the pope's January visit to the Philippines, U.S. officials are preparing heavy security measures...