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While dealing with doctrinal problems in Rome, the Jesuits are also facing life-threatening new trouble in mainland China. Without any official announcement, the government has reportedly arrested at least four Jesuit priests in Shanghai, along with several Roman Catholic laymen. The most prominent of those rounded up in the crackdown is Father Zhu Hongshen (known to Westerners as Vincent Chu), 65, who was released from prison in 1979 after serving 23 years. Church sources in Hong Kong say that the Communist regime has charged him with giving false information to his numerous foreign visitors and with following orders from...
...Roman Saturnalia, these revels were explosions of license and merry-making, and featured drinking and debauchery, houses decked with laurels and evergreens, feasting, bonfires and an exchange of presents. Christian missionaries, finding that they could not get converts to refrain from the festive activities, pleaded with Rome to give the festivals a Christian excuse. In 352 A.D., Pope Julius I decreed Christmas December...
Though his journey took him a mere 75 miles north of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, 61, was delighted to be back doing what he does best. The Pontiffs trip to the Italian village of Todi was his first visit outside Rome since he was felled by a would-be assassin's bullet in St. Peter's Square. Security forces, the largest ever in Italy for a papal visit, tried to keep a distance between the Pontiff and a crowd of 10,000, but John Paul would have none of it. Disregarding his ring of security guards...
...lead to the clearest statements. Today, she insists, fashion has become a Tower of Babel: "The BBC cameraman who buys his gear when on assignment in the States, and the American lady executive whose clothes were made in Italy, are in a sense imaginary citizens of Los Angeles and Rome, and may be expected to manifest some of the traits associated with these cities." Of course, some people simply do not care what their apparel says about them: ''An article may be worn because it is warm or rainproof or handy to cover up a wet bathing suit...
These books are full of silly superlatives, but here is one they forgot: not since 390 B.C., when the sacred geese warned that invading Gauls were climbing to the top of the Capitol, had Rome heard so much cackling as it did over the Taylor-Burton affair. Taylor worked and played with Burton during the day, then came home to Fisher at night, all in full view of paparazzi. One day, Fisher recounts, "she brought Burton to the villa. Burton immediately went into some kind of act. He turned to Elizabeth and growled, 'Who do you love?' Terrified...