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...Utrecht. The letter announced that thereafter the Dominican chapel would be closed to the public and that the Dominicans would soon be moved to another district. Huissen's worried citizens wondered what to do. The town council had an idea: it sent a unanimous resolution to the papal nuncio in The Hague, asking him to put the town's reaction before the Pope. Then someone-no one remembers who-recalled an old Dutch tradition: once the people break into a closed church, it has to stay open. That was all the action committee needed...
...dealers know, too many picture buyers are looking for paintings that will "go with the living room drapes." That gave Dealer Reeves Lewenthal an idea: Why not get easel painters to design fabrics as well as paint pictures? "After all," he argued, "Michelangelo designed the costumes for the papal guards...
...present Pope seems to be shaping a less categorical policy. On the heels of the news about Rudolf Goethe, it was announced that a papal dispensation is in process for another elderly German Protestant pastor who wishes to enter the priesthood while remaining married. Since he still must complete three years of study before being ready for ordination, the second pastor's name was not disclosed...
Besides stimulating the wet nurses' production, the music had another purpose, says De Angelis. As a result of their early conditioning, the foundlings soon developed musical aptitudes which won them places in papal choirs. One thing De Angelis cannot explain: why or when the hospital abandoned a practice which put it centuries ahead of the medical profession in the use of musical therapy...
...notable week for the O'Haras, the Pope also named Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, 56 (no kin), bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, to be papal nuncio to Ireland. Archbishop O'Hara has been a nuncio before, in Rumania, from which he was expelled by the Communists...