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...life in Poland was hard. Wojtyla's mother died when he was nine and he was brought up by his father, who subsisted for the most part on an army sergeant's pension. Though many Cardinals???and Popes?have been trained from early youth in the hothouse atmosphere of minor seminaries, Wojtyla went to ordinary high school. He attended Mass each morning and headed a religious society, but equally strong adolescent passions were literature and the theater. He was the producer and lead actor in a school troupe that toured southeastern Poland doing Shakespeare and modern Polish plays...
...Paul appeared to be virtually nonexistent, perhaps because the Pontiff, who turned 80 in September, looked so vigorous while celebrating a mid-Synod Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Still, the 1977 Synod may play a role in papal politics. Of the 117 voting members of the College of Cardinals???which only meets to elect a new pope?51 were Synod delegates. Thus the Synod provided an opportunity for nearly half of the papal electors to observe one another in action for weeks. Given Paul's age, the 1977 meeting could well be the last Synod before the next papal...
...text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week, in one of the strongest exchanges of views since the council began, three U.S. cardinals???Gushing of Boston, Spellman of New York, Ritter of St. Louis?were among the prelates who defended the declaration, while Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Holy Office, headed the ranks of Spanish and Italian prelates who denounced it as "totally unacceptable...
...venerable radical, he has pointed out that 37 Cardinals for Italy and only 30 more for the remainder of the Earth is a curious proportion. Canada, Australia and Ireland have had no Cardinals since the deaths of their last representatives in the Sacred College. The Americas have but five Cardinals???the U. S. four,* South America one.? England has only two.** Belgium desires a successor to the red hat of the late Cardinal Mercier...
Soon after the "Dean of Cardinals" had voiced his vain hope, there came a crisp announcement from the Holy Office. His Holiness will not raise the plenum of the Sacred College at present. Moreover only two new Cardinals??? both Italians?will be created...
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