Word: nuncio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were like the 82 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Jadot would be a nuncio, a papal ambassador accredited to the capital. In the absence of such ties, Jadot's mission as Apostolic Delegate is directly to the U.S. church. His duties, nonetheless, embrace the diplomat's task of reporting home on every pertinent detail about his host country. In his two years in the U.S., Archbishop Jadot has plunged into American life as no other Apostolic Delegate has done since the post was established...
...training center in Juticalpa is still closed, and the federal government has ordered all priests, brothers and nuns to leave the area for their own safety. Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio, an American who has worked in Honduras for 29 years, has also fled upon orders of the papal nuncio. No wonder. Wealthy ranchers have offered $10,000 to anyone who delivers to them the bishop's head...
When Mindszenty began criticizing conditions in Hungary, a papal nuncio reminded him of a Vatican promise to the Communists that the cardinal would accept the Pope's guidance and not disrupt church relations with the Hungarian regime-a condition to which Mindszenty said he never agreed. Mindszenty told the Vatican that "I shrank from the thought of having to keep silent in the free world." As a result-on the 25th anniversary of the day Mindszenty's trial ended-Pope Paul stripped him of his episcopal office. To Mindszenty, it meant "complete and total exile...
ITALY: CARS AND KITCHEN SCALES. The professional automotive designer probably commands higher status in Italy than anywhere else. The undisputed heir to the tradition of the late Pinin Farina and Nuncio Bertone is a prodigious creator named Giorgietto Giugiaro, the son of a church gilder. Giugiaro went to work for Fiat at 17 and designed his first complete car, the Alfa 2000 Sprint, when he was only 21. At 36, the head of his own firm, Ital Design, Giugiaro has more than a score of auto designs in his gallery of achievements, including the new generation of post-bug Volkswagens...
...petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten retreat to oversee discussions on the Spanish crisis. Long-distance conference calls hummed between Rome and Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio, the papal nuncio in Madrid, as Vatican diplomats sought ways to avoid an open rupture with Franco without compromising "the demands of justice...