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Supplying the personnel for an expanded staff of diplomatically trained clergy will be the task of an institution of learning that is 250 years old this year-the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Though it has turned out four popes, 98 cardinals and 42 papal nuncios since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded...
Last week his blackened body was exhumed from its tomb in St. Peter's and the face covered with a silver mask replica of his features. The body was dressed in new papal vestments, then placed in a gold-leaf sarcophagus with a glass top for public view. As it was unveiled this week, at the height of the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's archpriest, Cardinal Frederico Tedeschini, spoke for the first time the words of public veneration, to which only saints and blesseds are entitled...
...Anglican Church, however, never lost its identity as the English Church . . . The term "The Church of England" is used in the first clause of the Magna Charta, drawn up in 1215. As national feeling grew in Great Britain, the clergy and people began to chafe under the yoke of papal supremacy...
...revolt began to take form in 1532 when Parliament, under the direction of Henry VIII, enacted laws formally renouncing papal supremacy. The movement extended over the three subsequent reigns of Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. There was no formal schism until the Pope finally realized that Elizabeth was determined in her refusal to acknowledge his supremacy. He excommunicated her and absolved her subjects from allegiance to her. The papal adherents began to separate themselves into a distinct community around the year...
...lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane. After lunch, Bishop Le Huu Tu set out for his own see of Phat Diem aboard one of the principality's boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet, surmounted by a star and a bishop...