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...John, washed the feet of the Twelve Apostles as a sign that he was both the servant and Lord of mankind. The ritual, which was devised in medieval times, is carried out once a year at major cathedrals. In Rome, however, it was dropped at the death of Pope Pius IX in 1878; John XXIII revived the custom in 1959, and it has been performed in the Eternal City ever since...
...Communists even intend to back some dissident Roman Catholic candidates. After World War II, Pope Pius XII threw the full weight of the Vatican behind the Christian Democrats and excommunicated any Italian who voted for Marxist parties-though millions continued to do so. Many Catholics regard the decisions of Pope John's Council, which dealt frankly with religious liberty and freedom of conscience, as freeing them to vote Communist in good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold...
There is some precedence for the Pope's surprising choice: Spellman himself was an obscure assistant to Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell when Pius XII named him Archbishop of New York in 1939. Cooke, who has both a warm Irish wit and an M.A. in social work, is regarded in church circles as a prelate whose style and approach will not differ strikingly from those of his predecessor. Reared in The Bronx, the son of Irish immigrants (his father was a chauffeur and construction worker), Cooke was ordained to the priesthood in 1945. In 1957, Spellman...
...speak of money in such a situation: Money is human life in a hospital. If we had more money we cohld save more lives. Remember, this man was hopelessly unconscious. Are we obliged to treat such an individual when he can be kept "alive" only by extraordinary means? Pope Pius XII answered that question plainly, clearly: "No, you are not," he said. A little later we can consider the Church's attitude to these and related matters...
Spellman lost a measure of power with the death of Pius XII, and his conservative theology and sometimes rigid ways set him apart somewhat from the new church. Yet he enjoyed his greatest triumph when he played host to Pope Paul VI in 1965-the first time that any Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including...