Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congregation--Europe's oldest, dating to the 2nd century B.C.--the visit was particularly significant. For centuries the Jews of Rome, under papal rule, had suffered discrimination and humiliation, were confined to a ghetto and were forced to attend sermons urging them to convert. An ironic proverb expressed their feelings of hopelessness: "The persecution will end when the Pope enters the synagogue...
Official persecution had ended long before last week's momentous visit--in 1870, when the papal states were overthrown and Italy abolished the ghetto. But the Pope did not flinch from obliquely recalling the church's harsh treatment of Jews. He decried the "gravely deplorable manifestations" of the past and, quoting from a declaration of the Second Vatican Council, stated that the church "deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti- Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone." Then the Pope added, to ringing applause, "I repeat: by anyone." John Paul also expressed "abhorrence...
...fine tune the straightening. After considerable additional work, he steps back to examine the results, which aren't wholly successful. But then, a normal start tends to lift the opposite side of the car anyway. Maybe a crooked wing will counteract that. He raises his hands in a papal blessing and grins. "The torque'll lean it just right," he declares. He runs it again at 6:25. By 6:35, he is back in the pits with new problems to work...
...proceedings, moreover, are not entirely finished. A Roman court has begun a new formal inquiry into the presumed plot and assigned a trio of senior investigators to handle it. In the Netherlands, officials continue to probe the background of a Turk who, on the final day of a 1985 papal visit, tried to enter the country with fake identity papers and a Browning that police say came from the same lot as Agca...
...discrimination arises from the Roman Catholic assertion that ordination gives the church's priests the power to invoke in the Eucharist a real, mysterious re-enactment of the body-and-blood "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ. Beginning in 1552, argued the papal bull, the ordination ritual in Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer erased all mention of the priestly commission to offer sacrifice. Without such a commission, Leo ruled, in Roman Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite...