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...than is a Pope's global parish. Remarked Archbishop Manuel Menendez, head of Caritas in Argentina: "The other day on a street in Rome a little boy was asked if he loved the Pope and he said yes. He was asked why. 'Because I understand everything he says.'" As Albino Luciani, the Pope-to-be never studied on a campus outside his home area of northeastern Italy, nor did he gain the international sophistication of a Vatican bureaucrat or diplomat. In the town of Belluno, where he taught for several years, his old friend Archbishop Maffeo Ducoli said: "People...
...Luciani . . . Luciani . . ." Beside him sat two other Cardinal scrutatores (vote counters) who carefully plucked the ballots from a silver chalice, unfolded them and passed them to their colleague. It was the fourth and final ballot of the astonishing one-day conclave that gave the Catholic world its 263rd Pope: Albino Cardinal Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice...
...Pope's brother Edoardo, a retired schoolteacher, told how Albino grew up, "torn between the devil and holy water," his mother a devout Catholic, his father an itinerant laborer who spouted an old-fashioned anticlerical socialism. In one of the few sour comments on Luciani's election, an 80-year-old man in his native village of Canale d'Agordo grumbled: "It's a scandal, this election of this Pope. He's a very good man, but his father burned crucifixes in his stove...
Maybe, but the father also gave permission for Albino to enter minor seminary at eleven. After that he spent his entire career in the schools and rectories of northeastern Italy. So valuable was he to the faculty of the seminary at Belluno- where he taught for ten years-that he won a Vatican dispensation to earn degrees (with honors) at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University by taking exams without attending a single class...
...hadn't been a bishop, I would have wanted to be a I journalist," Albino Luciani once told an interviewer. Throughout his lifetime the new Pope has been a man of words, written and spoken, in sermons and interviews, in dozens of articles and several books. The samples below reveal a man with profound conservative instincts but a light touch and a sense of humor. They also show that, despite a parochial career, John Paul I has wide cultural interests...