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...high walls of Lafontant's Port-au-Prince compound, killing a dozen suspected Tontons Macoutes holed up inside. Infuriated at what was seen as support for the coup makers by the conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, crowds torched Haiti's 220-year-old cathedral and destroyed the Vatican embassy, stripping the papal nuncio down to his shorts before he was rescued and assaulting his chief aide with a machete...
...Michael's brother Sonny, shows up ready to bite the ear off any idle Mafioso, Michael tells him, "I don't need tough guys. I need more lawyers." But in his negotiations with a crafty padrone (Eli Wallach), with a gaudy capo (Joe Mantegna), even with some slippery Vatican officials over a European real estate deal, Michael decides he needs tough guys. The question is: Can he still be tough enough to lead them...
Whatever willfulness the Pope feared seemed to dissipate with the virtual Vatican takeover in 1981. After John Paul appointed Father Paolo Dezza as acting superior general and Father Giuseppe Pittau as his deputy, "everyone expected a Jesuit revolt," remarks the Rev. John Long, rector of the Jesuits' Russian-studies institute in Rome. When this did not occur, says Long, "the Pope was surprised, and the Vatican Curia was shocked." On the other hand, the Jesuits did not much change their activism but instead adopted a more circumspect profile...
...wanted him to continue the policies of his predecessor. But Kolvenbach has proved conservative enough, or diplomatic enough, to placate the Pope, even while earning the loyalty of his subordinates. John Paul's warmer attitude was first signaled in 1988, when Kolvenbach was chosen as the preacher for the Vatican Lenten retreat, an honor that was bestowed upon John Paul himself just before he was elected to the Throne of St. Peter. Kolvenbach has been meticulous in carrying out papal directives to the letter, aides say, and he shrewdly picked the Pope's man, Pittau, as his liaison with...
...week Ireland's church and state both received a shock. A woman who has battled Roman Catholic teaching on contraception, divorce and homosexuality was elected President, a largely ceremonial position. And the Vatican appointed Cahal Daly, a fierce critic of the Irish Republican Army, as Primate of All-Ireland. The Belfast-based bishop's elevation pleased politicians and religious leaders in Ulster and London, where there is hope that his outspoken condemnations of violence might help quell sectarian terrorism...