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...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...geopolitical realities. When he was editing Pacem in Terris and came to a sentence that noted how both sides in the cold war had entered the nuclear arms race for defensive purposes, John added: "And there is no reason to disbelieve them." Did he mean that? "No," answers Monsignor Pietro Pavan, the Vatican scholar who drafted the encyclical. "This was a strategic statement of the Holy Father. He said, 'Who really knows? And anyway, I cannot posit bad faith on the part of either party. If I did, the dialogue would be over and the doors would be closed...
Rest, and doctors' care, apparently brought the bleeding to a halt; but only for a few days. Early in the morning on May 26, the Pope awoke in agony and called weakly for help; the hemorrhages had begun again. His secretary, Monsignor Capovilla, summoned...
Extreme Unction. Around midnight Thursday, the hemorrhage began again, and then the spreading disease caused peritonitis-inflammation of the abdominal lining. In the morning the Pope accepted the last Communion (viaticum) from the hand of his confessor, Monsignor Giuseppe Cavagna. Monsignor Peter van Lierde, Sacristan of the Holy Palaces, performed the rite of extreme unction, anointing John's body with holy oil. Afterward, John called Monsignor Cavagna to his bedside, reported L'Osservatore Romano, and "in a clear, firm voice the august Pontiff confirmed his great love for the church and all souls and again offered his life...
...technical journals - such as the Catholic Biblical Quarterly in the U.S. and Revue Biblique put out by the Ecole Biblique - which are read and respected by scholars of all faiths. Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University's Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa, Jesuit John McKenzie of Loyola University of Chicago. Says W. D. Davies, professor of Biblical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "I wouldn't dream of undertaking a scholarly work without studying what Catholics have done...