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...small audiences. "He is a man of anguish who communicates his anguish to others," says one Chicago priest. Unlike the aloof Pius XII, Paul almost never dines alone; unlike even John, who affected a quaint Renaissance mode of dress, Paul seldom wears anything more elaborate than a simple white cassock. On busy days he may meet aides with his collar open; sometimes, with cassock doffed, he is in shirtsleeves. Like Pius XII, he often pecks out short memos and private letters on a battered Olivetti portable...
...encyclical referred to the recent wave of priests who have left the church to marry as "lamentable," and proposed rigorous new methods of choosing and training candidates for the cassock, including more psychological guidance. For the moment at least, the encyclical would still public argument within the church on the issue, but it was unlikely to change the feeling of clerics who regard celibacy as a burden that is heavy without being sweet. Within the past three years, no fewer than 4,000 priests have asked Rome to release them from their vows in order to marry. A poll conducted...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
...Fribourg is a respected ecumenical theologian. Father Giulio Bevilacqua was the Pope's confessor during his seminary days, but now serves as pastor of a poor church in the northern Italian city of Brescia. Bevilacqua assured his parishioners that he would continue to wear his plain black cassock, stay on as their parish priest...
Slavery to Freedom. Two years ago, after failing to persuade his wife to leave, Colopy wrote the Bishop of Worcester for advice. When the bish op's reply was discovered by one of the Slaves, Colopy was condemned before the community, stripped of the black-cassock worn by male Slaves, and locked in one of the farmhouse's rooms...