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...will play no active role in the Hungarian church. The Vatican is reluctant to negotiate any settlement over Mindszenty's head, would like to find a way for the heroic old cardinal to leave the country with peace and honor. Thus negotiations in Hungary, in the words of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican diplomat who arranged the September agreement, "are at the beginning of the beginning." Meanwhile, churches are wellattended...
Effective Representation. The biggest surprise on Paul's list was the elevation of three European priests who have never governed a diocese and probably never will. Belgian Monsignor Joseph Cardijn was founder of the worldwide Young Christian Workers movement, a pioneer in theologically exploring the role of the layman in the church. Monsignor Charles Journet of 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...
...Holy Communion in St. Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...
Kathleen, 13, held the baby. She's his eldest sister, and his godmother. Joseph Patrick III, 12, godfather and eldest brother, stood with his father Bobby and his six other brothers and sisters, while Monsignor William McCormack baptized Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Jostled by newsmen, TV cameras, and his share of 200 spectators, Cousin John-John felt that too many people had come. "I'm squashed," he said to his mother, Aunt Jackie. But one guest couldn't make it at all: the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon...
Telegrams from President Johnson and from Aegidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate in Washington D.C., were read by Cardinal Cushing congratulating Monsignor Hickey on his long and successful career at St. Paul...