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...Rome Reporters Walter Galling and Leonora Dodsworth find that the strong dollar hasn't changed their lives. Says Galling: "There's a little thing here called inflation." Munich Reporter Franz Spelman recalls the sad days of the wilting dollar. "Just eight years ago," he says, "some Germans, remembering the CARE packages that Americans sent after World War II, began giving the families of needy U.S. servicemen toys, clothing and furniture...
...Rome Reporters Walter Galling and Leonora Dodsworth find that the strong dollar hasn't changed their lives. Says Galling: "There's a little thing here called inflation." Munich Reporter Franz Spelman recalls the sad days of the wilting dollar. "Just eight years ago," he says, "some Germans, remembering the CARE packages that Americans sent after World War II, began giving the families of needy U.S. servicemen toys, clothing and furniture...
...third in a row, since Today pulled off something of a programming miracle. Responding to the network's shrewdly written (in Polish) request, Pope John Paul II gave NBC extraordinary, although not unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure in the U.S. during Holy Week would "bear much spiritual fruit." After a semiprivate Mass under Michelangelo's frescoes in the rarely seen Pauline Chapel, the Pope met briefly...
...express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing...
...habit altogether. Also, sisters are occasionally leaving the cloister for personal missions like visiting a sick parent, and, with special permission, for more mundane matters like schooling. A prioress in Barcelona even appeared on a TV talk show. "These are the exceptions that get publicity," says a Carmelite in Rome. Nonetheless, such liberties would once have been unthinkable; to traditionalists like Mother John, prioress of a convent in Schenectady, N.Y., the language of the reformed charter "was so broad that it was not safeguarding the essential dimensions" of the Carmelite vocation...