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Quintet of Questions. Meetings of the synod will take place in the Vatican's "Cantina delle Teste Rotte" (Cellar of Broken Heads).&* Two of three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as...
*Last week, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., cracked down on an underground cell called "The People" for celebrating informal worship services without ecclesiastical supervision.
Michel is a seven-year-old French Jewish orphan whose father died in a concentration camp; his mother swallowed cyanide to avoid being sent to one. During the war, a daring band of nuns spirits him to safety in a nursery run by Mile. Odette Rose, who has Michel baptized...
The Old Ones. The turnover in Curia membership could start quite soon. When the provision of a five-year term of office takes effect next January, the present curial officials must be newly approved by the Pope. This would give him a chance to ease some of the old guard...
The most important new appointment will be a cardinal to fill the upgraded post of Secretary of State-or Papal Secretary, as it will now be called. The present Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, 84, is soon expected to resign. His successor will be a kind of Vatican Prime Minister...