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...southeast of Rome to bless a new railway line. But Pope John XXIII, 80, is no stay-at-home. Leaving the seldom used Vatican station at daybreak in the Italian government's presidential railroad car, he made a 400-mile whistle stop journey to Loreto and Assisi to pray for the success of the Second Vatican Council, convening in Rome this week. From the coach's window, he blessed huge crowds along the line and gave signs that he may become a comparative Vatican vagabond. "I especially like to travel by plane," the Pontiff told reporters...
...parts, the parts have also been renamed: Bung Karno Sports Hall, Bung Karno Stadium, Bung Karno Swimming Pool, Bung Karno Hockey Stadium. Most of the 50,000 citizens displaced by the Bung Karno Sports Center are still living in Djakarta shantytowns. About their only recourse is to pray at the world's biggest mosque, if it is ever completed...
...MARK RUSSELL: Chief Justice Earl Warren had a horrible nightmare the other night-he dreamed he saw a segregated classroom where the students do nothing but pray...
...Vatican and diocesan chancery of Rome attended special services to offer prayers for the council's success. In dioceses around the world, Catholics joined in special novenas, asking the blessing of God upon the deliberations of the fathers. Uncounted millions of Protestants, asked by their leaders to pray for the council, prayed that it become a landmark in the Ecumenical Century equal in significance to the World Council of Churches Assembly in New Delhi last year...
Compromiser & Cheerleader. John himself, in the council preparations, played the dual role of head cheerleader and supreme referee. He frequently visited the office of Archbishop Pericle Felici, secretary of the Central Preparatory Commission, and benevolently told the workers that he was pleased with their progress and would pray for their work. Occasionally he took a hand in redrafting agenda items that might cause offense to certain prelates. One agenda item suggested by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani's theological commission, on the relation of Scripture to church tradition, was so potentially damaging to interfaith relations that Cardinal Bea personally wrote...