Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...justice." But, he said, his visit was "essentially pastoral." As Pope John Paul II launched a twelve-day, 8,000-mile voyage across Canada last week, it seemed as if the Pontiff had decided to avoid major political or doctrinal controversy. Instead, on his 23rd foreign tour, the first papal visit ever to Canada, John Paul concentrated on his forte: warming the crowds who come to see him, then using the glow he inspires to stir reflection...
...unity are better among Protestants than Catholics. Pope John Paul, for his part, has made friendly overtures and is prepared to go to great lengths to reach an accommodation. Vatican officials indicate the Pope would be willing to accept the 41 Patriotic Catholic bishops, whom the Chinese installed without papal approval. He would also probably agree to withdraw the Vatican's diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. But neither the Peking regime nor the Patriotic Catholic hierarchy shows any interest in negotiating...
...banking circles, the naming of a new chairman at Citicorp is like a coronation or a papal election. For years, speculation has mounted about the heir to Walter Wriston, 64, who retires in August as head of the largest (assets: $142 billion) private banking institution in the world. After a Citicorp board meeting last week, a bulletin was flashed to the company's 2,789 offices around the globe, and the suspense was over. The new chief: John S. Reed, 45, the brash and brainy young executive who led Citicorp's charge into nationwide consumer banking...
Before the World Council of Churches in Geneva, he stressed his "irreversible" commitment to Christian unity, then reaffirmed that papal authority is inviolate...
...Paul I reconfirmed all Vatican officials for five years, including Villot and Marcinkus. Sindona, who is serving a 25-year jail term in a New York prison for fraud, and Calvi, who was found hanging from a London bridge in 1982, had dire financial problems, but none that a papal murder would alleviate. News about Gelli's P-2 lodge did help topple the Italian government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani in 1981, but only because so many government officials belonged to the illegal organization; no Vatican prelate was ever proved to be a member...