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...bank's dealings with scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano. John Paul also made a major change in removing himself as direct ruler of the Vatican City government in order to stress his role as Catholicism's spiritual leader. The new administrator: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, who is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy...
...visit to the Vatican in 1982. Earlier this year, Indiana's Senator Richard Lugar, a Methodist, and the late Representative Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin, a Catholic, initiated legislation to remove an 1867 ban on funding a diplomatic mission to the Holy See. Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli nailed things down at the White House last month...
...modified within 24 hours. Meanwhile, two Italian citizens have reportedly offered themselves as hostages in exchange for the captured girl. Emanuela's family has hired a lawyer to deal directly with her captors, and at the abductors' request, the Vatican's Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, sits by a special telephone, awaiting further messages...
Before leaving Warsaw, John Paul paid unannounced visits to monuments commemorating his homeland's tragic ordeal in World War II. Accompanied only by Glemp, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow and Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...
When news of the text's dovish stance leaked last June, National Security Adviser Clark wrote fellow Catholics asking them to press the Administration views upon the bishops. The topic doubtless came up when Clark and President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy...