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Later in the flight, the Pope dined on lobster, ham, veal in wine, cheese, chestnut tart, fresh fruit and selected Italian wines, the same menu that the other travelers enjoyed. Conferring with him over lunch were Giuseppe Caprio, the No. 2 man in the Vatican Secretariat of State; Agostino Casaroli, the so-called Vatican foreign minister; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, the main Vatican liaison to the bishops' meeting...
Naming only three Italians, Paul surprised many Vatican observers in bypassing the Vatican's top diplomat, Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, and Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, one of his closest advisers and the Deputy Secretary of State. However, promotions would have removed them from their present posts, which cardinals do not fill, and Paul may consider them indispensable. Two of the new cardinals were in pectore (in the breast), meaning that their names will be kept secret unless the Pope discloses them; these secret cardinals might be his two aides. Recent appointments in pectore have been from Eastern Europe, but Paul last...
...same year, on his tour through East Asia, the Pope stopped in Hong Kong to celebrate a Mass during which he delivered "a message of unity and love to all the Chinese people wherever they may be." At the time, the Vatican's "foreign minister," Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, described the Pope's speech as an explicit gesture to Communist China...
...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...
...Padre Agostino." Some Vatican conservatives contend that Casaroli is too soft as a negotiator, concedes too much to the other side. The Yugoslav agreement, for instance, refers to "terrorism and analogous forms of political violence" that were allegedly committed by Catholic priests during World War II in Yugoslavia. Casaroli readily admits that the phrase is offensive, but replies that without it the Tito regime would not have recognized the Vatican's jurisdiction over the Yugoslav Catholics in spiritual matters. Casaroli's critics also point out that his judgment is not infallible. Long after it was evident that...