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...reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease the Italian prelates' discomfiture at serving the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years...
Filipczak, whose husband is the pontiff's nephew, was in Rome for the installation Mass two weeks ago. She attended a private audience in the Vatican the following Tuesday...
Filipczak said that both she and her husband do not expect the Pontiff to take any primarily political stands, although she added, "He is conservative on many church issues...
...other titles: Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Province of Rome, Sovereign of the Vatican State...
Vatican negotiations with some of these Communist countries, if they could be started at all, could be interminable. Hungarian negotiations began under Pope John XXIII and are not yet concluded. The difficulty of winning back religious liberties once they are lost could prompt the new Pontiff to think long and carefully before reaching any modus vivendi with Eurocommunism in any of its national guises. At the same time, Wojtyla is living proof that a healthy church can survive under Communism...