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...Synod of Bishops, created by Pope Paul VI in 1965, is potentially an important vehicle for sharing Vatican power with bishops whose people live under vastly different conditions all over the globe. Though the synod is only an advisory body and the Pope sets the agenda, bishops have an opportunity to come to the Vatican every few years to present their ideas on church problems. The synod of 1969, a year after Paul's hotly disputed reaffirmation of the ban on artificial birth control, brought a demand from the bishops that they be consulted next time before the Pope...
Less partisan critics of the political preachers make similar points. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, head of the American Jewish Committee, charges that the conservative evangelicals are trying to impose a "religious test" on public officials, which is forbidden by Article VI of the Constitution. The Catholic Jesuit weekly America claims that the right-wing evangelicals are preaching "moral fascism...
...speech, Moriarty covers a wide pitch range, and repeatedly resorts actually to singing his lines, at one point using falsetto to ascend to soprano F. Near the end he takes one line, "Why love forswore me in my mother's womb" (borrowed from the third Henry VI play and sings it over and over as a musical refrain...
...make her bed or clear the breakfast dishes. The Pope gently kissed the old woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John Paul removed the gold ring that Pope Paul VI had given him when he was named a Cardinal. Then he handed it to a local priest as a donation to the parish...
...Lucas and director Irvin Kershner take us to the edges of our seats and leave us there. If the quality of future Star Wars films remains as high as in the first two (or middle two, depending on your point of view), we'll still be there for episode VI three years hence--and for the last installment a generation from...