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One American churchman moved up in the reshuffle. Monsignor John P. Foley, 48, editor of Philadelphia's official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Standard and Times, was named head of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, thereby becoming, in effect, the Vatican's top information officer.
The division has been a matter of special concern to Pope John Paul II. In public statements, beginning with a speech in 1979 before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he has said that there are no irreconcilable differences between science and faith. As a symbol of comity, he has made...
The panel's initial findings have now been made public. In a series of essays titled Galileo Galilei: 350 Years of History, published in Italian and French editions, nine Catholic scholars, including one American, acknowledge that the church was wrong in silencing Galileo. Writes Archbishop Paul Poupard, head of...
Special Bulletin (NBC). Gripping in a way that The Day After was not, this docudrama presented a fictional nuclear crisis as a news event actually in progress. The result was a dark parody of the pontifical way in which the networks package disaster.
John Paul was the first person outside the congregation to learn of its choice; he was telephoned the news while on a visit to Austria. Although the Pope does not know Kolvenbach, the Vatican had approved his 1981 appointment as rector of Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute. Kolvenbach became...