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...Jihad for Jerusalem" [Aug. 25]: Islam has Mecca and Medina; Christianity has Rome and Istanbul. Why is it such an injustice for the Jewish people to declare Jerusalem, which has been their religious center for more than 3,000 years, their capital...
Back in 1534, Henry VIII broke with Rome and created the Anglican Church because he wanted to get rid of a wife and the Pope would not let him. Now, nearly 1,000 former Episcopalians, breakaways from the American branch of Anglicanism, have won permission to sign up with Rome again, and under special conditions. They had broken with the U.S. Episcopal Church, mainly over its recent decision to ordain women priests. Among the dissident Episcopalians were 65 ministers, many of them married. But how could they become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. and still stay married...
...announcement set off some sniping among Episcopalians about "stealing other people's sheep." A number regarded the decision as a setback in the negotiations to bring the Anglican and Roman churches together again; Rome had not consulted much with the Anglican or the Episcopal Church on the issue. But, said an Anglican spokesman in London: "I don't see any unusual ecumenical problems being created...
...heads in stead for the Earl of Burlington's eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with its excessive!} popular pyramids ... in Hawai Waikiki. Avoiding Waikiki bring! up the whole question of why one'; gone to Hawaii...
...former Screen Bombshell Anita Ekberg, la vita is no longer very dolce. Bulkier than in those fair-weather days in 1960 when she frolicked in Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini's camera, the former Miss Sweden has been keeping house in the Alban Hills south of Rome. Barely keeping it, that is. The actress, who has not been seen much by U.S. audiences since Fangs of the Living Dead (1973), has been robbed twice in the past few years. To make matters worse, a local court last month ordered the cottage vacated. But until the eviction takes effect some...