Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apostle on the move," was the way Pope Paul VI referred to himself when he ascended the papal throne five years ago. Since then he has been as good as his word, logging five trips abroad, including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff...
...Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. issued a 25,000-word pastoral letter last week that was both a summons to continued renewal of the church and a warning against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past...
...Once every two years, the bishops of a province-a group of dioceses headed by an archbishop-meet to discuss the qualifications of priests who should be considered for advancement. The names of the top candidates are submitted to the Vatican's apostolic delegate or papal nuncio, who then passes them on to Rome's Sacred Consistorial Congregation after making his own investigation of their qualities. To fill smaller sees, the Pope usually accepts one of the province's nominees; major archbishoprics, more often than not, involve the elevation of a prelate who has proved his worth...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). "The Successor" is a fictionalized documentary of backstage events during a modern papal election, starring Rupert Davies as the "simple man" who is chosen Pope after 14 days of balloting...
...student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that he was recruited to the staff of the Papal Secretariate of State, the first American priest to serve in that office...