Word: popes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown called Kozlov's attention to Pope John's encyclical on peace, issued last week (see RELIGION). Declared Kozlov: "We will even support the Pope if he is for peace...
Moving on to Rome, De Gaulle, a devout Catholic, met his old friend, onetime papal nuncio in Paris, now Pope John XXIII, who bestowed upon him the diamond-studded collar of the Supreme Order of Christ, the highest Vatican order, which only a dozen people have received since John XXII gave out the first one in 1319. "To find such a figure," glowed the Vatican's Osservatore Romano about De Gaulle, "one would have to go back to Charlemagne...
...style after the Italians managed to leave his bulky imprint on England as no composer before or since. When he was buried with regal pomp in Westminster Abbey in 1759, 3,000 people attended the ceremony, and the press reminded its readers that Handel was to music what "Mr. Pope was in poetry." Last week, with performances of the operas Samson, Semele and Rodelinda, the English were again busy honoring their imported genius in the bicentennial year of his death...
...beauty crisply framed in a black veil, Monaco's Princess Grace, accompanied by Prince Rainier III, made her second Vatican visit since the royal wedding. The couple were received in a 35-minute' state audience by jovial Pope John XXIII, who praised them as good
...though the King's new affability did not accomplish it, all Belgium took it as a good omen that with his return to Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify...