Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but the issue is deemed unworthy of protest. Rally organizers demand that the signs be removed...
...details of the papal plot...
Indictments in the papal plot...
...three Bulgarians and Bekir Celenk, a shady Turkish Mafia figure accused of lining up Celik and Agca for the job, have insisted that they had nothing to do with the papal shooting and that they never even knew Agca. Martella claims to have contrary evidence on both counts. A problem for Martella's case, however, will be his chief witness, the inconsistent and sometimes unbelievable Agca...
...letter to bishops published last week with papal approval, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship once again allowed limited use of the old Tridentine Mass (after the 16th century Council of Trent, which established it). The Vatican explained that permission was granted so as not "to alienate groups of the faithful who feel particularly tied to the [old] rite, which may be especially dear to them...