Word: papally
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Willebrands' letter addressed what the Cardinal called "the most fundamental" obstacle to Roman recognition of Anglican clergy, Pope Leo's emphatic 1896 decree. Leo's papal bull, titled Apostolicae Curae, laid out the doctrinal basis for the previous centuries of traditional rejection of Anglican ordinations...
...with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack at the behest of the Soviet Union...
...many years, Roman Catholics who were present in St. Peter's Square when the Pope delivered his traditional Christmas and Easter blessings urbi et orbi (to the city and the world) have been offered the opportunity for a plenary indulgence. In Catholic teaching, such a papal grant from the spiritual "treasury of merits" built up by Christ, Mary and the saints means that the recipient is freed from punishment in purgatory for sins...
Twice during the week Agca elaborated on his earlier claim that the papal shooting had been commissioned for about $1.3 million by "Malenkov," whom he | identified as the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Ten months before the assassination attempt, Agca said, he, Celik and two other Turks attended a strategy meeting in Room 911 of the Hotel Vitosha in Sofia at which Malenkov was present. "(Malenkov) said, 'Have you changed your mind about killing the Pope?' I said no, and he told me the reward would be 3 million marks," Agca testified...
...three more Turks, held elsewhere in Western Europe, would produce fresh testimony. One of the three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet. He was arrested by Dutch police during a papal visit May 14 for possessing a loaded Browning pistol that a Dutch prosecutor says came from the same "small lot of 21 weapons" as Agca's weapon. The revelation heightened a courtroom drama that the Italian press has billed as "the trial of the century...