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The shattering final shot in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, while it is among the most celebrated closing shots in cinema history, was not the original ending envisioned by Coppola. Anyone who knows the film […]

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The archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, is the first Jesuit to be named Supreme Pontiff. John Allen’s profile of Bergoglio can be read here. John Thavis’ profile can be read here. 

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