Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke the highest-ranking prelates of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, the branches of Christianity sundered in the great schism of 1054. Their meeting, at the residence of the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate to Jordan on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, was the first encounter of Pope and Patriarch since a tentative reconciliation in 1439, and it became a meeting of brothers. Responding to one of Paul's remarks, Athenagoras once demurred: "I am not a Holiness, only a patriarch." "You are Holiness to your people," the Pope answered, taking Athenagoras' hand. "I am Holiness to mine...
...appeared at his window, he spoke not as Catholicism's Supreme Pontiff but as a city's pastor, abandoning the magisterial "we" in his informal address. "I want to thank everyone who was in the crowd to welcome me," he said. "I bring you back blessings from Jerusalem where I celebrated Mass this morning. I have had the fortune to embrace, after centuries and centuries, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and to exchange with him words of peace and fraternity. Let us hope that these beginnings bear good fruit and that the seeds grow to maturity...
...Pope found no peace himself. King Hussein had tried to provide adequately for the Pope's safety, and an entire brigade of tough Arab legionnaires had been summoned to reinforce police and national guardsmen. But it soon proved not enough. On the 54-mile drive from Amman to Jerusalem, the Pope stopped on the banks of the Jordan, where Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. Photographers squirmed through the guarding cordons and jostled the Pope as he walked from his car to the river bank. Hovering over the scene, as a kind of airborne royal patrolman...
Unexpected Realities. When he entered Jerusalem, the Pope had intended to deliver a few words of greeting to the ancient, holy-and bitterly divided-city. He never got the chance, for the Pope-accustomed to the Byzantine orderliness of Vatican protocol-was brutally brought face to face with some unexpected realities of modern life. When the papal entourage wheeled into the square outside the Damascus Gate, a wave of humanity broke through the guards and surrounded the Pope's car. Newsmen, predictably, were in the lead, but priests, nuns, children, legionnaires and tourists were swept along by the tide...
...cameras of more than 1,000 newsmen, 8,000 policemen and 500,000 Jordanians and Israelis. The trip was planned to avoid adding to Near Eastern tensions, but some bitterness inevitably was aroused; Arab papers complained about the Pope's visiting Israel as well as Jordan, and Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi refused to take part in Israel's welcoming ceremonies...