Word: monsignors
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Personal Greeting. When Paul finished the last translation of his homily, a monsignor whisked the papers away, and the Pope rose to lead the crowd in singing the Nicene Creed in Latin. Then, quickly, he moved down to a chair set below the throne to receive a small group for a personal greeting. An Episcopal priest from Chicago spoke briefly about an ecumenical center to which he belongs. A boy presented the Pope with a soccer ball, neatly wrapped in white paper. Paul courteously rose to assist an Irish woman confined to a wheelchair with a broken ankle...
Apparently the Pope did most of the talking-at least according to Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary...
...ring), and accompanied the Pope into his library for a private 18-minute chat, mostly about the quest for an enduring world peace. Addressing the Kennedy party later, the Pope recalled that he had met the President and his family at a papal audience 25 years ago, when, as Monsignor Montini, he was Substitute Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs to Pope Pius XII. Paul praised the U.S. and-in a highly topical note-wished well the forces seeking equality for the Negro...
...feeble voice was heard. It seemed to come from the heavens. From his sickbed, Pius XII was addressing a few words to his well-beloved son, who was becoming his brother in the episcopate. I have always thought that on that day, Pope Pius XII marked the destiny of Monsignor Montini...
Paul VI began following the path blazed by John with his very first actions as Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...