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...materials are at hand to prepare the familiar quarters. Besides, remarked St. Louis' John Carberry, "some of the Cardinals from Africa live in no better conditions back in their archdioceses." So the proposal was quashed. The balloting, which begins Sunday, Oct. 15, will be in the Sistine Chapel, as it has been since 1878. That provoked Genoa's Giuseppe Siri to forecast a quick decision. "After three days, we shall all go mad," he said. "You have to be in there to understand the closed atmosphere...
...Reconstruction of William James's Lowell Lectures of 1897 on Exceptional Mental States, Lecture II: Automatism, Eugene Taylor, resident graduate at the Divinity School, Swedenborg Chapel, Quincy and Kirkland...
...last day of John Paul's life followed the routine that he had set almost from his first day in office. He arose at 5, for he found the quiet early-morning hours his most productive time. After Mass at the private chapel a few yards from his bedroom in the Apostolic Palace, he breakfasted in his dining room, worked in his bedroom till about 8, then took the antiquated elevator one floor below for the start of his official day. In halting English he told ten Filipino prelates, making their periodic report to the papacy, that Jesus spoke...
...with Vatican Secretary of State Jean Villot, 72, who within hours was to become once more the interim administrator, or Camerlengo, of the Holy See. Villot said that the Pope showed no signs of fatigue as he bade him good night. The day ended where it began, in the chapel with evening prayer. As the staff members retired, they told John Paul of the fatal ambush of a Communist youth by right-wing extremists in Rome. "They kill each other ?even the young people," he lamented. They were the last words anyone would hear him utter...
...funeral, televised live in 31 countries, marked the beginning of nine days of official mourning. On the tenth day, October 14, the cardinals will sequester themselves in the Sistine Chapel to begin the process of selecting John Paul's successor...