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Noble Contest. Last week alone, John demonstrated in the space of a few busy days the qualities that have made him prefer, among all the impressive titles of the Roman Pontiff, the simple designation servus servorum Dei?servant of the servants of God. After delivering a Christmas message in which he rejoiced at the end of the Cuban crisis (he noted that his pleas for peace at that time "were not words shouted into the wind") and pleaded for Christian unity and for peace?"of all the earth's treasures, the most precious and most noteworthy''?he addressed...
...complete recovery," and appeared at St. Peter's to close the first session of the Second Vatican Council. Meanwhile in Boston, Richard Cardinal Gushing, 67, allowed as how he, too, suffers from a stomach ailment-bleeding ulcers-and recalled discussing it two months ago with the Pontiff. Warmly sympathetic, the Pope recommended a little bicarbonate of soda before going to bed. "Your Holiness," replied Gushing, "thank God you're not infallible when prescribing medicine. That's the worst thing you can take for ulcers...
...first time in his four-year reign that Pope John XXIII was seriously ill. The Vatican, canceling all papal audiences a few days after the Pontiff's 81st birthday, at first reported that the Pope had a case of influenza. But the real trouble, it said later, was a gastric illness that had provoked a "rather intense anemia." There was speculation, although no confirmation, that he had an ulcer. Put to bed and on a strict diet, he seemed cheerier after a few days...
...Holy See rather than the council that ordered a specific change in liturgy last week. Pope John decreed that the name of St. Joseph be inserted after that of Mary in the Canon, the most solemn part of the Mass. The Pontiff's motive for making the first Canon "change since the 7th century was billed as an honor for the patron of the council, but the timing was strange. Extra honor for Joseph had been discussed inconclusively in the council. Council fathers conjectured that the Pope might be setting an example of liturgical change-or that he might...
...divide Catholicism from the rest of Christianity: the primacy of Rome, the doctrine of papal infallibility. When the non-Catholic Christian observers to the Second Vatican Council gathered in the Sistine Chapel for an audience with Pope John XXIII, they heard a rare and significant departure from form: the Pontiff pointedly referred to himself in the first person singular, and spoke with moving humility (see box). For the observers-some of them second-stringers appointed in the wary expectation that they would be mere bystanders-it was the high point of a week that showed clearly Pope John...