Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times," will deliver the sermon during this Sunday's Memorial Church service. His topic will be "Longevity of Life." The Peter Gomes Solidarity Committee has announced plans to demonstrate outside the church to protest the passing over of Rev. Gomes, as well as Rabbi Ben Zion Gold, in the papal selection process...
...only 58 years of age, they argued the new pontiff will probably enjoy a long reign, which would keep the Church from facing the instability of a papal death in the near future. Furthermore, they said, the election of a non-Italian--especially a cardinal from Eastern Europe--might well free Italy's Christian Democratic party from the almost incestuous ties with the Vatican that many experts believe have limited its political freedom in recent year...
...papal autopsy, the Cardinals feel that Pope Paul VI's 1975 decree on procedures to be followed when a Pope dies implicitly rules it out. Presumably, the Cardinals reason, in the 20th century autopsies are undignified and unnecessary. That was not always true in the papacy's more turbulent past. As recently as the 19th century, a Roman nobleman, Prince Don Agostino Chigi, reported that an autopsy was performed on the body of Pius VIII in 1830 after his sudden death...
...power of the Holy Roman Emperors in the tenth century, various Roman noble families, especially the Crescentii, opposed imperial-backed candidates for the papacy with their own candidates, with disastrous results. Benedict V was deposed by the Emperor in 964 after a month. Benedict VI, the Emperor's papal candidate, was thrown into prison in 974 by the Crescentii. Then the family set up an antiPope, Boniface VII, who had Benedict strangled in prison...
...Marcellus II, who died 22 days after his election in 1555, it was said in his epitaph that "he was destined only to appear." Of all the short-lived Popes, Urban VII was most promising. Elected in 1590, he immediately began reforming the Papal States and promoting public works. But the day after his election Urban caught malaria and died in eleven days...