Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour flight from Rome, there was the blast-furnace Florida heat. Then there was the pace. Allis often found himself asking, "How do you attend the Mass and the background briefing at the same time?" Then there was the unusually tight security around the Holy Father. To cover a papal Mass at 10 a.m. in Miami, reporters had to muster at 7 a.m. before being bused to and from the event...
...Photographers Halstead, Dennis Brack, Antonio Suarez and Ken Jarecke, there were hair-raising incidents. Cameras and lenses were put out of action by the rain. During a torrential downpour in Miami, lightning began to flash around the tower that Suarez was perched on to photograph the papal Mass below. He was unhurt, though a TV cameraman was later injured when a bolt struck the tower. In New Orleans, Suarez and Jarecke had to lug 50 lbs. of camera equipment more than two miles in 90 degrees-plus heat from the press buses to a security checkpoint. "Despite all the problems...
...Bishop Joseph Fiorenza. But that seemed a pardonable exaggeration. By no reckoning had John Paul taken America with the same wave of enthusiasm that his 1979 tour generated. Possibly, however, the relative calm of this visit suited John Paul, for nothing he did distracted from the strong message of papal authority he sought to deliver...
...many ways he may have no need to. From his perspective, it is now for Americans to move closer to Rome. The papal pilgrimage did not bring reconciliation, and none could have been expected. But if it was to be judged as a clarification of the differences across the Atlantic, it achieved its goal. Lay Americans as well as bishops spoke eloquently to John Paul. "Your Holiness," implored Catholic Social Work Administrator Donna Hanson of Spokane, "I do not always feel that I am heard. In my cultural experience, questioning is generally not rebellion nor dissent." Such give-and-take...
...Pope emphasized that he would show a conciliatory face to the complex, fractious and independent-minded American Catholic Church he was about to encounter. "I am convinced that the American church is a good church, a very good church," John Paul told journalists, in informal remarks aboard the papal jetliner Spoleto. He downplayed the importance of dissident voices that he was expected to hear on such sensitive issues in the U.S. church as marriage for priests, homosexuality and the ordination of women. "I am accustomed to that," he said in answer to a question about protests. "It would...