Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promises to be a colorful extravaganza. The economic meeting at Louis XIV's palace in Versailles will be capped by a special performance of the Paris Opera and a son et lumière fireworks display. The President will meet with the Pope in the Vatican's Papal Apartments, five days after the Pontiff's return from his trip to Britain, and then fly by helicopter to meet with President Sandro Pertini at the Quirinale Palace, built in 1574 as a summer residence for Pope Gregory VIII. At the invitation of Queen Elizabeth, Reagan will...
...pointedly appealed for prayers for peace. But besides that ever fiercer war with Argentina, where he now plans to travel next week, John Paul spoke to the religious conflict of the centuries. For the Pope was visiting a nation that symbolizes, perhaps as no other, rebellion against the papal office...
...dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America...
...British Catholic hierarchy was glum about the likelihood of a papal visit at a time of war, but a great deal was at stake. Very quickly, the British hierarchy launched a shuttle diplomacy effort designed to counteract the advice it knew the Pope was receiving from the ever cautious Curia. Archbishops Thomas Winning of Glasgow and Derek Worlock of Liverpool flew to Rome and at a hastily arranged luncheon in the Pope's private apartments, made a carefully prepared appeal, but it was soon clear that they were preaching to the converted. "I am convinced myself," the Pope said...
...Pope Leo XIII declared that Anglican orders are, and always have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests at all. (An added complication is Rome's insistence that women cannot be priests, while several Anglican churches, though not the Church of England, have ordained 400 women since...