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...first-and-10, Snowden's pass to Andy Laurence deflected off the tight end's hands and was picked off by Yale cornerback Rob Masella on the Crimson 40 yard line. The Harvard defense shot itself in the foot with two uncharacteristic and costly offsides penalties, one on third down and long, enabling Yale to convert on fourth and inches at the Crimson 28-yard line...
Died. Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, 91, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who served as a papal nuncio in Chile and Brazil for 27 years, then acted briefly as chief executive of the Vatican interim administration after the deaths of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and Pope John XXIII in 1963; of kidney disease; in Rome...
Unchanging Ritual. John XXIII was one of the most modern of Popes; his death was marked by ceremonies that have scarcely changed in hundreds of years. Carrying the traditional gold-tipped staff, Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, the Vatican chamberlain and chief executive of the Roman Catholic Church until a new Pope is elected, took custody of the gold Fisherman's ring that the Pope used for sealing documents; it was later broken and the pieces buried with John's body. To those in the room, Aloisi Masella spoke the ritual words: "Vere Papa mortuus est [The Pope...
Cardinal Aloisi Masella decided that the Pope's body should be carried through St. Peter's Square before it lay in state inside the basilica. On the day after his death, Palatine and Swiss Guards led the great procession through the square, crowded with upwards of 80,000 people. The Pope's body lay on a litter; behind it walked his sister and three brothers, in tears. Inside St. Peter's, the corpse was borne to a high catafalque beneath the ornate Bernini baldacchino that covers the main altar...
Since Pius XII had not filled the office that would become most important after his death, that of Camerlengo (chamberlain), the 13 cardinals in Rome on the day he died hurriedly chose one: 79-year-old Vatican Diplomat Benedetto Aloisi Cardinal Masella. One of his first duties was the breaking of the Fisherman's ring worn by the late Pope as well as the larger papal seals used for documents. (Traditional purpose: to ensure against forging of papal documents...
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