Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Paul II it was a curiously connubial week. First, in the Vatican's stately Pauline Chapel, the Pope kept a promise to a Rome street-cleaner's daughter who had boldly asked him to officiate at her wedding. The glowing bride, Vittoria lanni, 22, received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast...
...Will you perform my wedding ceremony?" inquired pert Vittoria lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this...
...Christ in the flesh, and the new Moses." Near Oaxaca, in the heart of Mexico's largest concentration of traditional Indian culture, John Paul sat atop a massive dais as women performed a stately dance and men wearing giant white clown masks stomped about. Everywhere, street peddlers hawked papal photos or T shirts with the papal portrait...
...chapel of the Palafox Seminary, before an audience of bishops, 6,500 miles from St. Peter's, John Paul delivered a 5,000-word speech that may mark the entire course of his papacy. The text was designed to strip away any ambiguity over future papal social policy. From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) to John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), papal encyclicals have rejected both the "unregulated competition" of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxism's class struggle with its elimination of private property. However, in his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Paul VI allowed...
...even more emphatic about his intentions: "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along." As a conservative convert to Roman Catholicism, Waugh decried the aims of Vatican II, the un-Latinizing of the Mass and papal excursions too far from Rome...