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...scheduled last November, the Pontiff has repeatedly attacked abortion. On Easter, speaking to 250,000 people in St. Peter's Square, he emphasized his opposition to the practice. He spoke out again a week later during a visit to the Sotto il Monte birthplace of Pope John XXIII. Reaffirming a church statement calling for abortion laws "to be overcome with all legitimate means," he repeated his view that "procured abortion is the killing of an innocent creature. No one can have an attitude of pliant consent or passivity in the face of abortion...
...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...
There is a peculiar contemporaneity in this careful reconstruction of the Vatican's historic opening to the Soviet bloc under Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. As a Rome correspondent for TIME, Roland Flamini covered the papal elections of 1978. When he began this book the year before that, Flamini could not have foreseen a Polish Pope and Soviet divisions poised on Poland's borders...
Government. He discovers a Khrushchev more friendly to the Pope than to John Kennedy; John XXIII maneuvering behind the backs of the Vatican Curia's professional antiCommunists; and CIA Director John McCone, a Catholic, warning his Pontiff that he is going too far. This is a valuable history for anyone attracted to modern diplomacy and Vatican intrigue...
...pivotal characters are fictional: an aging bestselling novelist named Kenneth Marchal Toomey and Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey is modeled on W. Somerset Maugham and Campanati is an exuberant exaggeration of Pope John XXIII...