Word: papally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countries represented at the Vatican today-among them the Moslem United Arab Republic and Communist Cuba-find the papal corridors not only a valuable listening station but a strategic position to catch the ear of the leader of 614 million Roman Catholics. The U.S. has not had a man on the spot since 1950, when Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Holy See, retired. Last week, with the arrival of Henry Cabot Lodge in Rome, official relations with the papacy were resumed-at least in part...
Holy See," just as Taylor was called. But the Vatican's Secretariat of State dislikes that phrase because it implies a special papal accommodation to the U.S., and has thus far referred to Lodge as the U.S. "Ambassador-at-large to the Holy...
...represent the Pope at the Eastern Roman imperial court. Modern diplomacy came with the Renaissance and Reformation. In 1815, Rome's envoys achieved considerable sway in Europe when the Vatican delegate to the Congress of Vienna, Cardinal Consalvi, won a remarkable concession from the Congress: henceforth a papal nuncio (ambassador) would be the doyen of the resident diplomatic corps wherever he was accredited...
...insist that only through continuous representation, constantly keeping its national viewpoint before the Pope, can a nation reap any real benefit from Vatican representation. France, for instance, apparently strives assiduously to explain to the Vatican its position on the Middle East crisis in the hope of avoiding any public papal criticism. "You don't send a letter explaining or have some fellow stop by," argues Father Robert Graham, author of the book Vatican Diplomacy. "You have to be here ramming it through their minds day after day." So far, the U.S. seems unwilling to go quite that...
...guessing game has spread abroad, where Crimsonologists on the European summer seminar circuit remind some observers of Romans gossiping during the interminable eve of a papal election. Some of the names being bandied about over there: Former HEW Secretary John Gardner, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard (who turned down Columbia), McGeorge Bundy, Princeton Economist Carl Kaysen, Harvard Law School Dean Derek Bok, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. The Boston Record-American last week reported that Richardson has already been tapped and has accepted. But Harvard's Burr denies this. Says he: "The net is still...