Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come to a dingy cathedral in a slum quarter of Istanbul, the last refuge of Orthodoxy's symbolic center, the once mighty Patriarchate of the Byzantine Empire. There last week, sitting opposite the crowned and richly vested Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff in nine centuries to join in an Orthodox Eucharistic service. Though the Pope did not partake of Communion, he quietly hummed along with the chants and made the sign of the cross Eastern style, right to left...
...series of more exciting events, moreover, has combined to take any edge off an election that was hackneyed the day it began. After the preliminary was over, The News was The Pope and it stayed that way until the pontiff left the country. A couple of weeks later, the Kennedys et. al. came to town to dedicate the John F. Kennedy Library. Kevin White was there--in the back row of the platform with some Boston Pops oboe blasting in his ear. And Joe Timilty was there too--with a camera, looking to attract attention to himself while snapping shots...
...clash between liberals and the Pontiff came out in the open at a service for 7,000 nuns at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. As millions watched on television, Sister Theresa Kane, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, used her welcoming speech to inform the Pope of the "intense suffering and pain" of "half of humankind." In the church, she declared, women must be admitted to "all ministries," meaning the priesthood. The Pope was taken by surprise, but gazed impassively as most of the audience burst into prolonged applause...
...cynics ask, "How? Give us a method." In the aftermath, the analysts are looking for practical applications. And the pontiff did leave his listeners with a "method," a highly impractical method which few modern men take seriously beyond the Bible--an impractical method for the most impractical of all things: life...
...have occurred in American attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy. One has only to imagine the nation's furious reception if Pope Pius XII had appeared in America 30 years ago: Congressmen would have introduced resolutions denouncing the visit; angry pickets would have greeted the Pontiff at every stop. It would have seemed un thinkable to invite him to the White House...