Word: popes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting...
...challenge, the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party, under Premier John (Jack) Lynch, campaigned against Labor's "alien ideology," and against O'Brien himself. Taking account of the fact that O'Brien has been divorced, they pinned on him the ironic label of "the new pope of Irish morality...
...real event of the trip was Pope Paul's carefully planned one-hour visit to the headquarters of the World Council. Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council, acknowledged the historic import of the meeting in his welcome, telling the Pope that his visit "proclaims to the whole world that the ecumenical movement flows on ever wider, ever deeper toward the unity and renewal of Christ's church." For his own part, Pope Paul seemed to indicate that such unity might have to wait a while. He startled some World Council members by explicitly calling...
Church out of the organization for some years to come. "Our name is Peter," said the Pope. "Scripture tells us which meaning Christ has willed to attribute to this name, what duties He lays upon us, the responsibilities of the apostle and his successors...
...that some saints had been dropped from a new liturgical calendar (TIME, May 16), both their devout followers and a surprising number of nondevout allies were outraged. The Vatican apparently viewed the new calendar as a routine liturgical change, hardly noticeable in an age of guitar Masses. But the Pope might just as well have issued an encyclical against baseball...