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Kelly does his best to be fair to all. Of Clement VI (1342-52), who proclaimed that his predecessors "had not known how to be Popes" and then began staging bacchanalia for his "niece" and his courtiers, Kelly says judiciously, "The charges brought by contemporaries against his sexual life cannot be explained away, but he was personally devout, a protector of the poor and needy who showed charity and courage when the Black Death appeared at Avignon in 1348-49, and defended the Jews when they were blamed for it." So he did know something about how to be Pope...
Lady Jane, her first film, is no formula flick, but an ambitious costume melodrama about the violent period after the deaths of Henry VIII (in 1547) and, six years later, his sickly young son Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst moments to the level of teenage fantasy. Bonham Carter, small and dark haired, with huge brown eyes and a face that suggests a miniature in an antique locket, plays the doomed Lady Jane Grey, who lost her life at 16 in an attempt to prevent Henry's Catholic daughter Mary...
...most important church documents in recent years, Pope Paul VI wrote that the preaching and teaching of the Christian message always entails a twofold fidelity: "fidelity to the human person, and fidelity to the word of God." I find this principle helpful in offering this article on the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality...
...people in John Guare's moving, irreverent farce, which won the 1970 New York Drama Critics Circle prize, are awaiting the arrival of Pope Paul VI in New York City in 1965. Awestruck more by his temporal majesty than his spiritual inspiration, they try to become a part of the pageant by seeing him, seeking a blessing or, in one case, attempting to blow him up. At the same time that the Pope is visiting, Movie Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering...
...That total included two commercial satellites in 1986 and six next year, at a launching fee of up to $40 million each. Since NASA has scrapped that plan, several customers have started shopping around. Western Union was forced to postpone the June trip of its Westar VI, a 24-channel communications satellite designed to replace an older, twelve-channel model. GTE Spacenet had planned to send up its G-Star III, which would relay telephone and television signals, on the shuttle in November. Says C.J. Waylan, the company's president: "We're not abandoning the shuttle...