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In this Jan. 1, 2011 file photo, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo,
left, talks with his son and current New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, during a
swearing-in ceremony in the War Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y.
(AP Photo/Mike Groll, Pool)
Cuomo, the father of New York's current governor, Andrew Cuomo, served three terms in the state's highest office between 1983 and 1994. His hospitalization was first reported by the New York Daily News.
A gubernatorial spokeswoman says the 82-year-old elder Cuomo is in good spirts and is thankful for the best wishes and support he's received. Details of his condition were not immediately available, with the spokeswoman says more updates would be provided "as appropriate."
The New York City native had been seen as a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nominations in 1988 and 1992, but chose both times not to seek the office. Cuomo was defeated in his attempt to win a fourth term by Republican George Pataki and retired from politics.
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Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Pope Francis to Meet Orthodox Church Head in Istanbul as Part of Effort to Bolster Relations
Pontiff and Patriarch Bartholomew I Are Expected to Discuss Reconciling Church Hierarchy
Pope bows in Istanbul mosque in new outreach
Associated PressNovember 29, 2014
In this photo provided by Vatican newspaper
L’Osservatore Romano, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, kisses
Pope Francis’ head during an ecumenical prayer at the Patriarchal Church
of St. George in Istanbul, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.
AP
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ISTANBUL — Pope Francis stood
Saturday for two minutes of silent prayer facing east in one of
Turkey’s most important mosques, a powerful vision of Christian-Muslim
understanding at a time when neighboring countries are experiencing
violent Islamic assault on Christians and religious minorities.
His head bowed, eyes closed and hands clasped in front of him, Francis prayed alongside the Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Rahmi Yaran, in the 17th-century Sultan Ahmet mosque, shifting gears to religious concerns on the second day of his three-day visit to Turkey.
“May God accept it,” Yaran told the pope of their prayer.
The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi called it a moment of “silent adoration.” Lombardi said Francis told the mufti twice that Christians and Muslims must “adore” God and not just praise and glorify him.
It was a remarkably different atmosphere from Francis’ first day in Turkey, when the simple and frugal pope was visibly uncomfortable with the pomp and protocol required of him for the state visit part of his trip. With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mega-palace, honor guard and horseback escort now behind him, Francis got down to the business of being pope, showing respect to Muslim leaders, celebrating Mass for Istanbul’s tiny Catholic community and meeting with the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
Francis bowed before Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and asked him “to bless me and the church of Rome” at the end of an ecumenical service Saturday evening. The Orthodox leader obliged, kissing Francis’ bowed head. The two major branches of Christianity represented by Bartholomew and Francis split in 1054 over differences on the primacy of the papacy, giving particular resonance to Francis’ display of deference.
His head bowed, eyes closed and hands clasped in front of him, Francis prayed alongside the Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Rahmi Yaran, in the 17th-century Sultan Ahmet mosque, shifting gears to religious concerns on the second day of his three-day visit to Turkey.
“May God accept it,” Yaran told the pope of their prayer.
The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi called it a moment of “silent adoration.” Lombardi said Francis told the mufti twice that Christians and Muslims must “adore” God and not just praise and glorify him.
It was a remarkably different atmosphere from Francis’ first day in Turkey, when the simple and frugal pope was visibly uncomfortable with the pomp and protocol required of him for the state visit part of his trip. With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mega-palace, honor guard and horseback escort now behind him, Francis got down to the business of being pope, showing respect to Muslim leaders, celebrating Mass for Istanbul’s tiny Catholic community and meeting with the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
Francis bowed before Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and asked him “to bless me and the church of Rome” at the end of an ecumenical service Saturday evening. The Orthodox leader obliged, kissing Francis’ bowed head. The two major branches of Christianity represented by Bartholomew and Francis split in 1054 over differences on the primacy of the papacy, giving particular resonance to Francis’ display of deference.
Pope Francis stands with Patriarch Bartholomew I as they meet
outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on May
25.
Associated Press
At the cathedral of St. George—a whitewashed building on the shores of the Golden Horn—Francis will meet Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, spiritual leader to the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
Pope Francis will continue the
process of resetting the Vatican’s relationship with Islam on his trip
to Turkey following a rocky patch under Pope Benedict, says WSJ’s
Deborah Ball. Photo: Getty Images
The prospect of a formal reunion of the churches remains a distant prospect, but Pope Francis has made dialogue with other Christian churches a major thrust of his papacy, establishing warmer relations with other Christian leaders than Pope Benedict XVI did.
The push is characteristic of a pope who has tended to put aside doctrinal differences and instead seek to join forces on issues ranging from the persecution of Christians to poverty, the environment and migration. It is a priority given extra impetus by the dramatic exodus of Orthodox Christian communities from the Middle East and the rise of radical Islam.
Exhibit A in Pope Francis’ drive for better relations is his blossoming relationship with the 74-year old Bartholomew, Constantinople Patriarch since 1991 and an advocate of slow rapprochement with the Vatican.
“With the pope’s visit, the friendship between Orthodox and Catholic Churches will strengthen. We are sure of that,” said Dositheos Anagnostopoulos, the spokesman for the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul.
The public meeting is the fourth by the two religious leaders so far, a significant sign, according to George Demacopoulos, an expert in Orthodox religions at Fordham University.
“The people in charge now are looking for common ground rather than what’s wrong with the other side,” he said. “They have finally figured out that they have so many areas of common concern that it so much more effective to speak together.”
But beneath the pledges to strengthen ties, the pope and Patriarch face a number of hurdles, principally the divisions within the Orthodox Church. While Francis is the ultimate authority over a single church, Bartholomew is seeking to align a dizzying array of more than a dozen self-governing Orthodox churches from Serbia to Syria, which must all agree on terms of negotiation with Rome before they take up uniform positions on a glut of liturgical issues.
Importantly, Russian Orthodox Christians, who together with the Ukrainian church make up the majority of Orthodox Christians, have a chilly relationship with the Vatican, one that could limit the clerics ability to present a united front on some issues such a persecution of middle east Christians, theologians say.
Still, Patriarch Bartholomew has scheduled the first ever pan-Orthodox synod for 2016 in the Hagia Irene Church in Istanbul, with the aim of adopting a framework for unified Orthodox talks with Rome. As a next step, he has proposed an Ecumenical Council of all churches, East and West, to meet in 2025 on the Sea of Marmara, 110 miles (180 kilometers) from Istanbul—where the first such Ecumenical Council was held in 325.
Bartholomew’s patriarchate has a complex relationship with Turkey’s government, which has in recent years eased draconian restrictions on minority communities, but has refused to reopen churches and failed to ease the concerns of a Christian community that has dwindled to 320,000, according to the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based think tank.
But in the historic Istanbul district where the pontiff and Patriarch will meet, home to one of the city’s last remaining Greek communities, residents and visitors on Wednesday were busily preparing for Francis’ arrival, with local business predicting a boon from tourists and pilgrims.
Manolis Despotakis, a travel company owner from Crete, said he was bringing 150 people to Istanbul this weekend to see Francis. “These kind of steps between Catholics and Orthodox in recent years have had really positive results,” he said as he took another tour group around St. George Cathedral.
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