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Little more than a decade ago, she was teaching general music in the Cincinnati public school system to unruly fourth, fifth and sixth graders. Today her audiences range across the world's music capitals right up to the Vatican. Kathleen Battle is the best lyric coloratura soprano in the world. Engaged regularly by the finest orchestras in the U.S. and Europe, and with a thriving recital career under way, she is so good that opera producers now call for a Kathy Battle voice when casting the roles that are her specialty...
...balmy July morning in Rome a visiting Soviet "diplomat" took a stroll with some of his colleagues near the Vatican. "I'll join you later at the embassy," he told his companions. "I want to visit the Vatican museums." Vitaly Yurchenko walked off on his own. That, apparently, was the last the Soviets ever saw of him. Shortly after Yurchenko vanished, the embassy asked Italian authorities to investigate the disappearance. "We looked everywhere," said an Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman. "In hospitals, morgues, insane asylums, hotels, camping grounds--nothing...
...role of women in the church would be a serious concern at the synod, since it is not a significant issue outside the West. Malone's document complained about poor communication between Rome and religious orders. It did not refer specifically, however, to the unsettled dispute between the Vatican and 24 U.S. sisters who last year signed a pro- choice newspaper advertisement on abortion. The Vatican has threatened to expel those sisters from their orders if they do not affirm church teaching...
Attending a retreat with a group of priests in Youngstown last week, Malone told TIME, "What we need now is not to turn aside from Vatican II teaching but to grasp it with new enthusiasm and to pursue its implementation with new vigor." Since the synod will provide only two weeks to do that, Malone's report also asserted, it might be time for a special U.S. synod to deal with Vatican II. Though the U.S. bishops meet briefly once or twice a year, their last extended national council was in 1884. The U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican have...
FOOTNOTE: *Some 800 liberal Catholics have endorsed a follow-up protest ad that was to have appeared in October, but it is now being held pending further Vatican action...