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Died. Paolo Cardinal Giobbe, 92, eldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals who, before his promotion to the purple by Pope John XXIII in 1958, served 33 years in the papal diplomatic service as an emissary to Colombia and The Netherlands; in Rome...
...insisted French President Georges Pompidou, when he first proposed to visit Italy for talks with President Giovanni Leone and Premier Giulio Andreotti. Pompidou explained that he wanted to skip a formal trip to the Eternal City in order to avoid the folderol-state dinners, motorcades, military honors, perhaps a papal audience-that would get in the way of the "working visit" he envisioned. Instead, he suggested something "like my meeting with Mr. Heath at Chequers," the country estate where he had met informally with the British Prime Minister last March...
...years ago Kung's blunt denial of papal infallibility in his book Infallible? An Inquiry caused him to be assailed by Catholic officialdom (TIME, April 5, 1971). Even his longtime mentor, Progressive Jesuit Karl Rahner, regretfully concluded that Küng must henceforth be dealt with as if he were a liberal Protestant. Now he has published another book, Why Priests? (Doubleday; $5.95), from which the above quotations are drawn. It will confirm Kung's Protestant proclivities in the minds of many...
...born Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti became a member of the first Constituent Assembly and also secretary of De Gasperi's Cabinet...
...adherents. As does Rome, Orthodoxy believes in both church tradition and Scripture as the source of divine revelation, in the seven Christ-instituted sacraments, in the basic trinitarian doctrine formulated by the first seven ecumenical councils, and in the duty of reverence toward the Virgin Mary. But Orthodoxy rejects papal infallibility and permits married men to become priests, though only celibates can become bishops. Orthodoxy also makes a distinction between its churches and "Oriental" churches like the Armenian Church, which differ from them doctrinally on the nature of Christ but are sometimes confused with them by Westerners...