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...Ouellet, Chile's Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Ukraine's Lubomyr, United States' Theodore McCarrick. Each, for a different reason, seems highly improbable. Someone even dropped the name of the Cardinal from Lyon Philippe Barbarin to my colleague Jordan Bonfante, who promptly looked him up in the Vatican's Annuario Pontificio, to find he was born in 1950. ?Sure," Jordan quipped, "a French babyboomer...
...voracious reader whose interests range from Peanuts to the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican's annual equivalent of Who's Who, Ed is known for lugging 30 or more books to his vacation home on Cape Cod every summer. He is known as well for a dry, sharp wit that belies his normally self-effacing style (he once wryly observed that the return of a former, imposing managing editor would be "the Second Coming...
...seemed ephemeral after the war." The death of both parents in 1957 seemed to him "a signal from the Lord," and he decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to his church. "My College." Once the resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble deciding where to go: the Pontificio Collegio Beda in Rome, only major Roman Catholic seminary specializing in late vocations.* Rooted deep in the Anglican upheavals of the mid-19th century, when many Anglicans converted to Roman Catholicism and some became priests, St. Bede's was established in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII, who named...
...Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...
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