NEWS
By Tim Smith and Tim Smith,Sun music critic | May 25, 2008
Among the memorable, music-related moments in Mayberry, on the classic TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, is when a jealous Deputy Barney Fife tries to talk a golden-voiced bumpkin-type named Rafe Hollister out of entering the town's singing contest. Barney: "They're liable to ask you questions only a trained musician understands. Rafe: Like what? Barney: Well, suppose they was to ask, "Can you sing a cappella?" Would you know what to do? Rafe: No. Barney: There you are. Why get up and embarrass yourself?
SPORTS
February 4, 2008
What the heck happened? That could apply to the outcome of last night's Super Bowl, but it also could apply to how I felt as I was watching it unfold on Fox. Was it really just a simple matter of the New York Giants defense applying pressure to Tom Brady and disrupting the vaunted New England Patriots offense? That seemed to be the only explanation we were hearing from analyst Troy Aikman. They were attacking the Patriots in a variety of ways, with different blitzes, Aikman said in the first half.
TRAVEL
January 27, 2008
The Vatican Museum was a must see for my first trip to Italy last fall. I was so amazed at the incredible collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian treasures at the museum. Then came the visually stunning Raphael Rooms and Michelangelo's masterwork in the Sistine Chapel. Just when I thought it could not get any better, I came to the spectacular spiral stairway that was designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. I spent nearly an hour admiring and photographing this amazing stairway. Lonnie Kishiyama Millersville The Sun welcomes submissions for "My Best Shot."
NEWS
By Anica Butler and Anica Butler,SUN STAFF | May 2, 2005
Although only Roman Catholic cardinals participated in the secret conclave that elected the new pope, Cardinal William H. Keeler said he felt the prayers of multitudes. Addressing those at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for a Mass of Thanksgiving for Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, Keeler thanked parishioners for their prayers while he was away in Rome. Keeler told the congregation yesterday that it wasn't just the 115 cardinals who were at the conclave, but "the whole church ... millions upon millions," he said, joking that he had the e-mails and voicemail messages to prove it. During his homily, Keeler talked about his experience at the Vatican and his hopes for the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
NEWS
By Janice D'Arcy and Robert Little and Janice D'Arcy and Robert Little,SUN STAFF | April 19, 2005
VATICAN CITY -- The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church return to the sequestered secrecy of the Sistine Chapel this morning, resuming the deliberations to elect a new pope that ended yesterday with plumes of black smoke rising from the chapel's stovepipe -- a sign that their first vote did not produce a two-thirds majority. Thousands in St. Peter's Square briefly saw the first wisps of smoke as white, building hopes that the 115 cardinals had chosen a successor to Pope John Paul II on their first ballot.
NEWS
By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | April 17, 2005
VATICAN CITY -- The Roman Catholic Church officially closed out Pope John Paul II's reign yesterday and unveiled a false floor in the Sistine Chapel to hide anti-eavesdropping equipment. The Vatican said Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the papal chamberlain, destroyed Pope John Paul's Fisherman's Ring and lead seal, officially ending his pontificate, during a meeting of cardinals to discuss problems facing the church. Then, the cardinals in Rome under the age of 80 were told to begin moving this afternoon into the Domus Sanctae Marthae, or St. Martha's House, behind St. Peter's Basilica, for the conclave, which begins tomorrow.