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By 1968 she had revised that stance. Thanks to John's Second Vatican Council, Mass was now in English and the priest and congregation interacted. In retrospect, she thinks this may have kept her in the church. But in that year John's successor and the council's inheritor, Paul...
Suddenly the Pope was neither remote nor abstract; he was in Betty's bedroom. "For the first year and a half after Ed and I were married in 1970, we were not in a position to have any children," she says. "I saw Paul VI as representative of a very...
White bulbs on a hot baby-blue background: the message board in the St. Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow...
"I just don't see why it is such a big flippin' deal that the Pope is coming here," said Suzie Rataj, with her parents and younger brothers weeks before the Pope's visit. Edward Jr., the eldest of Ed and Betty's children, is no longer Catholic; Anne, 20...
They stop, however, when talk turns to John Paul's apostolic letter ruling out the ordination of women priests. "I wouldn't mind seeing some," says Betty. "But I think a lot of people would fall away. I think the church is not ready for it. "