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...fact that the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, went to call on the Pope for the first time in 18 years, rumors were once again rife about Princess Margaret. Flimsily constructed on the supposition that high-ranking Norfolk's papal audience could only concern an equally high-ranking cause, the rumors took three forms...
...fatwa (ruling), a pronouncement having almost the same force for Moslems as a papal encyclical for Roman Catholics, decrees that for a Moslem to recognize the state of Israel would be to condone an act of robbery. "All heavenly religions are unanimous in condemning robbery and stating that robbed objects should be returned to their rightful owners." Furthermore, Mohammed himself has said: "He who dies in defense of his property is a martyr; he who dies in defense of his honor is a martyr." When Mohammed and his followers were driven out of Mecca, the Ulema recalled, Allah ordered...
...Vatican, Germany's go-getting Automaker Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 18, 1954) had a private audience with Pope Pius XII, a friend of Nordhoff's ever since the Pope was a papal nuncio in Berlin. Good Catholic Nordhoff presented His Holiness with a flashy new Volkswagen station wagon with a red body and black suntop...
...Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi: his guess, $3,600; collector's guess...
Revealing Rack. Lucrezia, his second wife, was running to fat, dull and fearful, a natural target for his abuse. Not Beatrice. As the papal prosecutor pieced it together, she decided to kill her father and persuaded mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question...