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...Bydgoszcz. Even rank-and-file Communists had started to call for democratic changes in the party organization. By striking down Solidarity's pastor and main international patron, the Kremlin could, in one blow, have demoralized Polish society and shifted the shaky balance into the government's favor. Explains a Vatican official: "It was the same kind of drastic action that the Soviets took when they invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. They did that while the whole world was watching. What would it matter if they were exposed for killing the Pope...
...Vatican comes to the Met, but was the journey necessary...
...sampling of 237 paintings, sculptures and other objects from the Vatican will open to the public at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Feb. 26. Previews have been running for weeks already. Later, "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" will travel to Chicago and San Francisco. It is the most expensive art exhibition ever put on in America. It cost $8 million to prepare, ship, insure and mount, and involved the largest single grant ever laid out by a corporate sponsor: $3 million from Philip Morris, which is to museums what Mobil and Exxon...
...code is the latest manifestation of the church renewal begun by the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965. Indeed, Pope John XXIII proposed a revision of canon law in the same 1959 speech that announced his intention to summon the council. The new document is infused with the liberalizing spirit of Vatican II; it is far more pastoral in tone than the 1917 code, recognizing the rights of Catholics and minimizing penalties. For example, the number of ecclesiastical offenses that call for automatic excommunication has been reduced from 37 to seven (one of them is having or procuring...
...keeping with Vatican II, the new code emphasizes the role to be played by lay Catholics as part of the "people of God." Various provisions explicitly authorize them to perform certain liturgical functions, such as reading the Old Testament lessons and epistles at Mass, helping to administer a diocese, serving on marriage tribunals and even running parishes if no priest is available...