Word: papal
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...himself stood waiting in the garden. When the car door opened, the Pope reached in to help his exhausted guest out of the back seat, then embraced him warmly. Paul led the aged man to an apartment in St. John's Tower and -in the ultimate gesture of papal humility-gave the pectoral cross and bishop's ring he was wearing to the visitor...
Despite Felici's considerable influence in the Vatican (he is often mentioned as the top conservative candidate in the next papal elections), the project moved slowly. Finally, after the commission had produced three earlier versions, Felici sent a 9,000-word Latin draft of the law to the 3,386 bishops of the world last February, asking for their comments at summer...
...examples, he cited some 180 references to church, most of which were used to mean "an authority different from and superior to the People of God." Of the 24 uses of supreme, only one applied the adjective to the greatest of virtues, charity. Mostly the word was linked to papal or ecclesiastical authority...
...other U.S. Catholic colleges, C.U. is a "pontifical" university, for which the American bishops are directly responsible to the Vatican. The 15 bishops on the university's board of trustees had already been embarrassed by a 1968 statement drafted by Maguire and several fellow C.U. theologians opposing the papal birth control encyclical Humanae Vitae. When Maguire applied for laicization and permission to marry in late 1969-with the clear intent of staying on-his request met a cold shoulder even before it was forwarded to Rome...
...told friends. He had agreed to give up his battle to stay at the school in return for "a just settlement" for the remaining year of his contract and a decree of laicization that would permit him to "continue working in the Catholic context." Early this month, from the Papal Secretary of State, came the news that the decree had been granted. Then, in a private, traditional ceremony in a Maryland church, Maguire's brother Joseph, a U.S. Navy chaplain, married the couple. Writing to friends who had attended their "non-marriage," the newlyweds noted that...