Word: pontiff
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...events were proof, it seemed, of the continuing strength of Catholic piety. The attendance is also something of a personal triumph for Paul. Whether at the 3½-hour ordination or at his massive weekly outdoor audiences, the rigors of ritual have served to rejuvenate the 77-year-old Pontiff...
Arrupe requested a meeting, which was held last month in Paul's private library. While Arrupe's first assistant waited in an anteroom, the Superior General entered the library to find seated with the Pontiff Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, the No. 2 man at the Secretariat of State, where hostility to the Jesuits often runs high. The Pope was warm but firm. Arrupe's responsibility, he insisted, was to reimpose discipline and respect for tradition and persuade the increasingly egalitarian Jesuits not to change the structure of their order. Paul's message to the Jesuits: enough innovation...
...might resign if the documents were vetoed. Then, in the final hours of the General Congregation last week, Pope Paul sought to reassure the Jesuits. He summoned Arrupe and his four top assistants to a special meeting. The mood was noticeably different from that of the earlier meeting. The Pontiff explained that "it was this very affection that we have for you that drove us to interpose our authority in the course of recent events." After presenting the Jesuits with a valuable crucifix, he announced that he had approved the four documents he had received so far from the Congregation...
...letter about the forthcoming Congregation that Pope Paul sent to Arrupe. In it, the Pope urged Arrupe to end the permissiveness of recent years. He added: "We express once again our desire, indeed our demand" that the Jesuits remain "a religious, apostolic, priestly order, linked to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." Soon Rome was rife with rumors that Arrupe would have to resign under pressure...
Disembodied Spirits. Apart from Pope Paul VI, Arafat is the only person who does not represent a government ever to address the plenary Assembly. The Pontiff had a claim to legitimacy as head of a state; he is ruler of Vatican City. Arafat heads a heterogeneous organization whose popular strength is untested, but the Arab nations nonetheless greeted him as a conquering hero...