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...DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. VOL. VI...
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...Italian descent and speaks fluent Italian, had hopes that he would be received by Pope Paul VI. He had also intended to chat with President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale, negotiate with leaders of Italian industry and then receive lesser lights from the Holy See, the government and the financial community. None of it happened. The Pope did not grant an audience; the reason, a Vatican spokesman told Perón, was "because of interpretations that could be given such a meeting." President Leone, who had enough free time to preside over a reception for film stars (including Richard Burton...
After a hard day on the battlements, medieval warriors used to unwind with a spirited round or two. The Pilgrim fathers had at it on the Mayflower. And even good King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were known to have had a fling. Over the centuries, the venerable game of darts became such a craze, in fact, that in 1939, on the eve of World War II, the British House of Commons engaged in a heated debate over the banning of darts in Scottish pubs. Darting not only fostered "ne'er-do-wellism," a Scottish magistrate...
...theologian, to progressives like Congar and German Jesuit Karl Rahner -now seem willing to accept a more tangential role. The Pope defined that role for them last month when he addressed them as "specialists of the science and of the intelligence of the faith." As for the magisterium, Paul VI has made it clear over the years that he considers only the bishops and himself to possess the power "to tell the people what God asks them to believe...