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Dueling Nativities to Adorn Vatican
Reporting from Vatican City -- It's a labor of love, full of Christmas spirit and, this year, a hint of crosstown rivalry. Ever since Pope John Paul II initiated the tradition in 1982, the Vatican's Nativity scene has attracted thousands of Romans and...Tags: John Paul II, Arts and Culture, Local Elections, Elections, Vatican City
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'Mission: Impossible III': Can he keep ahead?
Times Staff WriterOne-hour TV has been good to writer-director J.J. Abrams, good enough to get him the job of sustaining "Mission: Impossible," an action movie franchise that also began as one-hour TV. Is it any wonder that the Tom Cruise-starring "Mission: Impossible III"...Tags: Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup, Nicole Kidman, Keri Russell
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Former professor led Vatican office that enforces doctrine of faith
Sun National StaffAs soon as his name was read from a balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Joseph Ratzinger was being considered a transitional pope because of his age - at 78, the oldest pontiff elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in nearly three centuries. But when...Tags: Arts and Culture, Defense, Nazi Party, Italy, World War I (1914-1918)
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A pontiff of the people
![Pope John Paul II, the world-traveling, working-class pontiff who stood up to the Soviet bloc and won the allegiance of tens of millions, died Saturday in Vatican City. He was 84.
"We all feel like orphans this evening," Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri told the crowd of 70,000 that gathered in St. Peter's Square below the pope's apartment windows. The assembled flock fell into a stunned silence before some people broke out in applause -- an Italian tradition in which mourners often clap for important figures.](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-04/16955748.jpg "Pope John Paul II, the world-traveling, working-class pontiff who stood up to the Soviet bloc and won the allegiance of tens of millions, died Saturday in Vatican City. He was 84.
"We all feel like orphans this evening,\" Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri told the crowd of 70,000 that gathered in St. Peter's Square below the pope's apartment windows. The assembled flock fell into a stunned silence before some people broke out in applause -- an Italian tradition in which mourners often clap for important figures.")
Religion EditorPope John Paul II, the world-traveling, working-class pontiff who stood up to the Soviet bloc and won the allegiance of tens of millions, died Saturday in Vatican City. He was 84. "We all feel like orphans this evening," Undersecretary of State Archbishop...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Elections, Abortion Issue, Social Issues, United Nations
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Out of silence, a melody rises
Sun Foreign StaffVATICAN CITY - St. Peter's Square yesterday was in many ways the portrait of an ideal spring day, sunny and warm and populated by hundreds of boisterous tourists. But that picture changed quickly. After Vatican officials went on television in the...Tags: John Paul II, Christianity, Vatican City, The Pope, Death
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Ancient, secretive task awaits at conclave
Sun StaffVATICAN CITY - Tomorrow, 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will sequester themselves in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel for the beginning of the faith's most private and perhaps most important ritual, the election of a new pope. They will dress...Tags: Voting, Elections, Diplomacy, Italy, Trips and Vacations
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'I know he is at peace,' Keeler says
Sun StaffCardinal William H. Keeler, who is expected to be the first Baltimore archbishop in more than 100 years to participate in the ritualized process of selecting a pope, prayed for the ailing pontiff yesterday even as he prepared to clear his schedule for...Tags: John Paul II, William H. Keeler, Christianity, Islam, Elections
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Pope John Paul II Dies at 84
Times Staff WriterPope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Career and Workplace, Abortion Issue, Religious Festivals, Andrew Greeley
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Beyond wars and words: Angkor Wat
Tribune staff reporterThe first approach, no matter how you approach it, isn't all that impressive. From the main road, the profile beyond its moat is low, like a very rough pencil sketch of Parliament along the Thames but less grand and imposing. The three visible spires,...Tags: Cambodia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, Defense, Texas
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Leave it or take it, rent it or buy it?
Times Staff WriterWHILE viewing the next to final episode of "Sex and the City," I teared up. Not because I cared about the fate of the characters but because it illuminated so clearly the neat halves into which my traveling life was hacked by childbirth. Carrie is...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Hamburgers, Family Vacations, Vehicles, Rentals
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Pope, U.S. cardinal discuss abuse scandal
Sun National StaffWith his papacy just minutes old and the faithful in St. Peter's Square still unaware of his selection, Pope Benedict XVI greeted Chicago Cardinal Francis George in English and told him he was focused on the issue that has engrossed the church's...Tags: Francis George, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Social Issues, Church and State Relations, John Paul II
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Conclave's locale includes a little luxury
Sun StaffVATICAN CITY - Workers hauled in trunks marked diplomatico. Crews labored over the entrance foyer. Maids gathered in the basement cafeteria to rest for a moment. There were so many things left to do yesterday to prepare the Casa Santa Marta for the...Tags: William H. Keeler, John Paul II, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Elections, Vatican City
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![One-hour TV has been good to writer-director J.J. Abrams, good enough to get him the job of sustaining "Mission: Impossible," an action movie franchise that also began as one-hour TV. Is it any wonder that the Tom Cruise-starring "Mission: Impossible III" plays like two consecutive one-hour TV shows, one sort of standard, the other stocked with excitement?](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23253638 "One-hour TV has been good to writer-director J.J. Abrams, good enough to get him the job of sustaining "Mission: Impossible,\" an action movie franchise that also began as one-hour TV. Is it any wonder that the Tom Cruise-starring \"Mission: Impossible III\" plays like two consecutive one-hour TV shows, one sort of standard, the other stocked with excitement?")
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