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...restoration experts, after preliminary checks, reported no significant damage to the Leaning Tower, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Basilica and other ancient buildings in Rome and the Vatican...
Harvard first considered contacting the Pope this spring at the suggestion of George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, who has known him since Vatican II in the early 60s. But Rupp said "It is virtually certain" the Pope will not visit Harvard...
...autonomous" Catholic church, which was forced to break with Rome in 1957, elected a new "bishop," Michael Fu Tieshan, 47. The appointment was the first since the death of Yao Guangyu in 1964. Chinese Catholics have been cut off from Rome and from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. (At the only legally open Catholic church, in Peking, the Mass is still said in Latin.) The Vatican has refused to recognize Fu's election. But when Pope John Paul II recently spoke of those ties to the Chinese Catholic community that "never have been broken spiritually...
...Pittsburgh (1959-69), the Boston-born Wright was a fierce battler against racial discrimination, an opponent of the Viet Nam War and an outspoken theological conservative, opposing the ordination of women. He was also an authority on Joan of Arc. Even as the highest ranking American in the Vatican Curia, he never forgot his roots, dining nearly every Saturday on Boston baked beans...
...Popes by doctrine are blessed with papal infallibility, but John Paul II appears to be the first who also possesses papal infantability. Certainly no predecessor within memory ever demonstrated the talent for baby kissing that the new Pontiff has displayed. During Vatican audiences and on his travels to Mexico and his native Poland, the sequence has been the same: John Paul reaches into the throng, expertly hefts a baby, and with arms burly from swimming and skiing, hoists the child overhead before bestowing a papal buss. Vatican aides are discomfited by the innovation, which slows processions and complicates protocol...