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From its outset, the papal pilgrimage had proceeded at a headlong pace. Paul's first stop was at Teheran airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy...
...Pope's traveling plans have been criticized by the press and even by some prelates. To add to his discomfiture, he touched off criticism among his own cardinals shortly before leaving Rome by decreeing that cardinals over 80 could henceforth neither hold "Vatican office" nor vote in a papal election. The Pope suggested in his directive that "the problem of advanced age" might affect "grave and delicate roles" of cardinals...
...Bell is afraid of anything that has not received its papal imprimatur being plugged into its system. This is like an electric company trying to discourage the installation of air conditioners and washer-dryer combinations. If the phone company would only encourage the use of its system by innovative equipment manufacturers, it would suddenly find 200 million Americans working for Bell on their own time, rather than working against it. The increase in communications traffic would jump enormously because 200 million people can think of a lot more things to do with a communications network than one corporation can think...
Died. Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella, 91, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals, who served as a papal nuncio in Chile and Brazil for 27 years, then acted briefly as chief executive of the Vatican interim administration after the deaths of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and Pope John XXIII in 1963; of kidney disease; in Rome...
...since the Reformation has Roman Catholic theology been such a popular topic as in the years following the Second Vatican Council. New opinions by theologians on such diverse subjects as sexual morality, original sin, papal infallibility and even the nature of the Mass and sacraments have provoked applause, shock and division. Last week, in an attempt to arrive at some "common denominators" that might ease the division, 225 of those theologians -mostly Catholics but including a few Protestants-met in Brussels to discuss 'The Future of the Church...