Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even after the motorcade disappeared behind the Vatican walls, some 35,000 people clustered beneath the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace. When the Pope finally appeared at his window, he spoke not as Catholicism's Supreme Pontiff but as a city's pastor, abandoning the magisterial "we" in his informal address. "I want to thank everyone who was in the crowd to welcome me," he said. "I bring you back blessings from Jerusalem where I celebrated Mass this morning. I have had the fortune to embrace, after centuries and centuries, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and to exchange...
...major problem is papal infallibility, which Orthodoxy holds is a divine gift to the church, not to one prelate. Another is the existence of dogmas-such as the Marian Assumption and Immaculate Conception-that have been irrevocably defined by Rome but remain merely "pious beliefs" in the East. Other disputed doctrinal issues are the Roman belief in purgatory, which Orthodoxy denies, and the Catholic refusal to permit remarriage after divorce on grounds of adultery...
...Navy, debarked 35 vehicles and 245 men. Tiny Lebanon managed to deploy a journalistic force of 60. Even Tass, the Russian news service, and the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, put correspondents on the scene. All told, some 1,200 newsmen from 34 countries converged on the first papal visit to the Holy Land. Inevitably, the press and its photographers made much of the news themselves...
...once did Paul VI show annoyance at the ceaseless importunities of the newsmen. In Capernaum, where he knelt to pray in the ruins of a synagogue where Christ himself is said to have preached, Paul drew back in dismay when a radio newscaster thrust a microphone directly under the papal chin...
...Christian? Authorities in Jordan and Israel had made press arrangements that, on paper at least, complemented the papal tolerance. Press censorship was temporarily lifted, and passage across the border separating the two bitter enemies was made easy for newsmen. The only correspondent to encounter any serious trouble at the checkpoint was the New York Times's Milton Bracker, who, on entering Jordan, gave the wrong answer to a routine question: "Are you a Christian?" "No," replied Bracker. "I am a Jew." Authorities begged him to retract his response, if only for their records. When the defiant Bracker refused, they...