Word: papally
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Controversy has erupted over whether the city of Boston or the archdiocese will pay for the papal visit, especially for the 150-foot platform and altar to be constructed on Boston Common. Some Protestant groups and Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union officials have said that if the city pays for the entire visit, Boston will be violating the separation of church and state guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. The Boston City Council earlier this week debated whether to appropriate $150,000 for four platforms and a choir performance on the common...
...Popes by doctrine are blessed with papal infallibility, but John Paul II appears to be the first who also possesses papal infantability. Certainly no predecessor within memory ever demonstrated the talent for baby kissing that the new Pontiff has displayed. During Vatican audiences and on his travels to Mexico and his native Poland, the sequence has been the same: John Paul reaches into the throng, expertly hefts a baby, and with arms burly from swimming and skiing, hoists the child overhead before bestowing a papal buss. Vatican aides are discomfited by the innovation, which slows processions and complicates protocol...
...page draft of the Central Committee's instructions for local coverage of the papal visit has been smuggled out of Poland. Though the document may have been amended in later drafts, it betrays a remarkable obsession with detail and provides a rare glimpse into the backstage workings of a state-controlled press...
...Catholic population is small in four other nations: heavily Lutheran East Germany (whose Christian daily ran a front-page story on the papal tour); Rumania, where Eastern-rite Catholics were forced into the Orthodox Church in 1948 by the Communist regime; Bulgaria, which now has a full complement of Catholic bishops for the first time in 35 years; and xenophobic Albania, which claims to have exterminated all religion...
...office, puts an observable strain on even a robust 59-year-old. Since taking office, the Pope has suffered from a lack of his customary exercise and reportedly has dropped about 15 Ibs. due to overwork. He is installing an 83-ft. swimming pool at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat. When a French cleric injudiciously remarked on the cost, the Pope was quick to reply, "It's less expensive than having another conclave...