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Highly Satisfactory. Against those Catholic theologians who assert that the question of religious liberty is not open to discussion by Catholics, the opposite faction contends that the encyclicals, pronouncements and other papal actions often cited by the traditionalists (e.g., the Inquisition, Pius IX's Syllabus) were contingent on specific historical situations, and are therefore subject to revision...
When Mohammed II in 1453 wrested Constantinople from the last of the Caesars, Constantine XI Palaeologus, he barely missed capturing the papal ambassador, Cardinal Isidore of Russia, as an extra prize. But Isidore put his distinctive cardinal's hat and robes on a corpse, and in plebeian rags scuttled through a gap in the wall even as Mohammed's followers were mistakenly displaying the severed head of the corpse as Isidore...
...ruled the archdiocese of Manila (3,800,000 Catholics out of a total 4,000,000 population) since 1953, and his elevation is no surprise. Philippine disappointment at not getting a cardinal at the last consistory was in fact so strong that the Vatican was forced to change its papal nuncio. Archbishop Santos was responsible for the reconstruction of Manila Cathedral, which was almost totally destroyed...
...Tourcoing, near Lille, studied at Rome's Gregorian University (where he won the gold medal traditionally presented by the Pope to the graduate with the best grades). Since 1943 tall, jolly Joseph Lefebvre has been Archbishop of Bourges, made a favorable impression on the Pope when John was papal nuncio to France...
...that the cardinal had left his post. But John XXIII, deeply concerned over the Chinese Communists' efforts to establish a tame "national" Catholic Church in schism from Rome, felt that Cardinal Tien could serve on Formosa as a rallying point for Asian Catholicism and as a symbol of papal interest in the Far East...