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...friend of Moro's, made a direct personal appeal for his release. But in his usual Sunday-noon blessing to the crowd in St. Peter's Square, the Pope denied that he had "any particular indications" about what he called this "painful affair," thereby refuting rumors that Vatican officials had been in secret contact with the kidnapers. Pleaded His Holiness: "To the unknown authors of the terrifying plot, we address a pressing appeal to implore them to give the prisoner his liberty...
...addition to pleading in this oblique fashion for his own life, Moro warned authorities to consider the consequences to the government if he should be forced to disclose state secrets. Moro suggested that the Vatican could be useful in the case...
...shut down the patriarchate's press and its once renowned seminary. The regime has tightly controlled overseas travels of the Rum clergy. Last September, officials even yanked the passport of Metropolitan Meliton, the see's chief envoy, just as he was leaving for talks at the Vatican. Meliton is also engaged in crucial negotiations for a historic Great Synod of the world's Orthodox bishops...
John Cardinal Wright Vatican City...
...dogmas of modern art is that Paris, between 1870 and 1939, was the cultural center of Europe and the world: the fount of norms, clearinghouse of ideas and Vatican of newness. Yet around the turn of the century, the supremacy of Paris did not seem quite so clear-cut. "If I had a son who wanted to be a painter," a 16-year-old student wrote in 1897, "I would not keep him in Spain for a moment, and do not imagine I would send him to Paris . . . but to Munich . . . as it is a city where painting is studied...