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...have a right to an audience with him. And Popes have always responded, each in his own way. The languid Leo X of the Renaissance grandly received his subjects on horseback while at the hunt, and Pius IX had his own railway car to make whistlestop visits through the papal states. The general audiences of the ascetic Pius XII were like an encounter with a saint. John XXIII's were folksy-until sickness and duty made him give them up. The mood of Pope Paul's audiences is somewhere in between, and they draw unprecedented throngs...
Inside St. Peter's, the nave is still filled with the long rows of seats set up for the Vatican Council (which resumes next week); the papal audience takes place in the transept behind the high altar. Shortly before 10, about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled...
...Father Robert Graham makes a strong case for a new "civil rights" policy that would include a drastic overhaul of Holy Office procedures. A number of bishops-reportedly including New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman-have protested the instruction by the Congregation of Seminaries, and Pizzardo has advised papal nuncios and apostolic delegates not to circulate the decree...
...relations between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. In July he sent personal representatives to the Golden Jubilee of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei. Last month he proposed that Orthodoxy join with Rome in amicably settling their doctrinal differences, the most notable of which is Orthodoxy's rejection of papal infallibility. But so far, the Pope has failed to convince the East...
Kindly Pope John then took Adzhubei and his wife Rada on a brief tour of the papal apartments, explained the meaning of his tapestries and paintings. He asked Rada to tell him the names of her children (Nikita, Aleksei and Ivan) because "the names of children acquire a special sound from the lips of their own mothers." John gave Rada a rosary because it reminded him "of the prayer my mother used to recite by the fire when...