Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were like the 82 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Jadot would be a nuncio, a papal ambassador accredited to the capital. In the absence of such ties, Jadot's mission as Apostolic Delegate is directly to the U.S. church. His duties, nonetheless, embrace the diplomat's task of reporting home on every pertinent detail about his host country. In his two years in the U.S., Archbishop Jadot has plunged into American life as no other Apostolic Delegate has done since the post was established...
...priestly vocation. As chief chaplain to Belgium's colonial forces in the Congo, a friend recalls, he learned to walk a tightrope, quietly encouraging Congolese independence while the army steadfastly opposed it. In 1968, Pope Paul made him a titular archbishop and tapped him to be a papal envoy, first to Thailand, then to several posts in West Africa...
...training center in Juticalpa is still closed, and the federal government has ordered all priests, brothers and nuns to leave the area for their own safety. Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio, an American who has worked in Honduras for 29 years, has also fled upon orders of the papal nuncio. No wonder. Wealthy ranchers have offered $10,000 to anyone who delivers to them the bishop's head...
...Sultan Mahomet II, the main antagonist of Venice during that period. In 1514, John of Ragusa offered to poison anybody selected by the government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise be poisoned; this custom is reported to have been general in Rome, without the host's taking offense...
...Clarke could not avoid the pratfall of his controversial modern poetry. His allusions became increasingly personal and localized, to the point where personal questions of doctrine are superseded by vicious attacks on papal pronouncements he read about in the Irish Times (these annotated articles read like parodies of T.S. Eliot), and the policies of the Irish Church-State...