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...Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them"; the Epistle of St. James urges Christians, "Confess, therefore, your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be saved." In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public, but in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council made regular private confession the norm for the church. The Reformation rejected Catholic belief that Penance was a Christ-instituted sacrament; some Anglicans and Lutherans practice private confession, but most Protestant churches have a confession made by the entire congregation, generally at the beginning of their services. Although public...
...stock dividends, which two years later was raised to a 30% maximum. A rider to the original law that would have exempted the Vatican was specifically struck down. Nevertheless, the Vatican refused to pay the taxes-which might run upwards of $15 million a year-citing the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini. At that time, Italy agreed to pay the Pope $39 million in cash and $52 million in 5% government bonds as indemnity for losses suffered by the Pope when the Papal States were incorporated into Italy in 1870. Under Pius XII, Vatican money...
...body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral as Bishop of Rome. Then the priests and nuns who had served John in his papal household packed their belongings and quietly went home to Bergamo and Venice. "Incomparable Pope." John XXIII was, said Milan's Giovanni Cardinal Montini, "an incomparable Pope," and much...
...from their teaching assignments. At a victory celebration in a Rome pensione that night, one Curia official gleefully said: "This time we shall break their monopoly." Every bishop arriving in Rome for the Vatican Council last fall was handed a pamphlet, written by Monsignor Francesco Spadafora of the conservative Lateran University, asking that the fathers condemn the methods employed by Biblical critics...
Unlike most Popes, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli has spent most of his life living away from the restrictive influences of Rome. He has come to respect and be respected by people of many beliefs. After a year of teaching patrology (the study of early church fathers) at the Pontifical Lateran Seminary in Rome as a young priest, he was removed because the Romani did not consider him quite safe?he was proposing such unthinkable ideas as that mixed marriages might be allowed in certain circumstances. He languished as a letter copier in the Oriental Congregation until the Holy See discovered that...