Word: papally
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...history of U.S. relations with the Vatican is tangled indeed. Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President...
DIED. Mother Pasqualina Lehnert, 89, austere German nun who, as the de facto secretary, housekeeper and confidante of Pope Pius XII, was called the Pope's Guardian Angel; of a brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...
...Seattle, a special papal delegate has been examining Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, an outspoken antinuclear activist who has welcomed homosexual groups to his cathedral and allowed liturgical experimentation (see box). The Pope has directed other American bishops to investigate the 500 religious orders in the U.S. as well as the country's 300 seminaries, presumably to see whether candidates for the priesthood and their teachers have strayed from orthodoxy...
...Protestants and Catholics can, in the end, overcome their differences. Catholics may now be permitted to sing Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God or worship in their native languages, but a wide gulf clearly remains on issues like the status of Protestant ministers and, most crucially, papal authority...
...have they spiced their messages with ideological rantings or political rationales. Instead, they have identified themselves only as "people who are interested in Agca's liberation." Some Romans speculate that they may be agents from Bulgaria or even the Soviet Union, the countries Agca has implicated in the papal assassination attempt. The kidnapers' shadowy maneuvers have caused widespread concern and confusion. After four newspapers carried a rambling communique from Emanuela's abductors, a Roman magistrate took the unprecedented measure of forbidding newspapers to print such missives. Following an outcry from the press, that order was modified within...