Word: biretta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, rotund figure climbed the 15 steps toward him, Pope Paul VI last week signaled his pleasure. He rose from the papal throne in the Vatican's audience hall, where he had just bestowed the three-cornered biretta upon 19 newly named members of the College of Cardinals. Then Paul stretched out his arms in welcome to the 20th candidate: Joseph Marie Cardinal Trinnhu-Khue, 76, Archbishop of Hanoi...
...American priests who were unprepared to serve in trackless poverty zones of Latin America. His radical ideas, particularly about education, alarmed the Vatican enough to cut off the flow of priest-students; finally, after a farcical latter-day inquisition, Illich felt forced to turn in his monsignor's biretta...