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That gambit dismayed the progressives. Dutch Bishop Jan Willebrands, the secretariat's second-in-command, got an audience with the Pope, warned him of the adverse worldwide reaction if the declaration were sidetracked. Paul agreed. He summoned Gregory Peter Agagianian, a Curia cardinal and one of the moderators, and...
Self-Operation. Seeking to balance such conflicting demands while he struggled to establish his own style as Pope, Paul has created a record that so far shows as many hits as misses, as many half-starts as firm conclusions. He carried on John's interest in ecumenism, notably by his...
Nowhere has Paul's desire for balance and consensus been more apparent than in his dealings with the council, where time and again he has acted as a brake on the progressive majority. Occasionally his brake is well-executed. He took the crucial birth-control problem from council hands?which...
"Lord," says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official in Washington, "I haven't heard Joe Hill sung at a meeting in 15 years-or anything else, for that matter." The typical local meeting is deadly dull and poorly attended. Members generally wear slacks and sport shirts, including bowling-and softball-league...
The chance of a meeting with Johnson was cleverly made to seem a coincidence of timing, since protocol forbids that the President should drop everything to meet the head of a state that the U.S. does not recognize diplomatically. After the announcement of the Pope's trip, the White...