Word: rome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midweek John Paul spent the afternoon visiting his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The village crowds, accustomed to a more distant papal style, roared with approval as he stood up to wave from the back of his open black Mercedes. On the balcony of the bedroom in which Pope Paul VI died last August, John Paul told the crowd with a smile: "Our first meeting has been very warm, very noisy, and I hope very religious...
...John Paul showed that he could be firm, he also demonstrated he could be highly unpredictable. An example came last week with his trip to a Rome hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing...
Filipczak, whose husband is the pontiff's nephew, was in Rome for the installation Mass two weeks ago. She attended a private audience in the Vatican the following Tuesday...
...France. Not unjustly, the exile of the papacy was called the "Babylonian captivity": the avarice and corruption of the papal court was unequaled even in the days of the Medicis and Borgias. Seven French Popes resided at Avignon before Gregory XI (1370-78) finally returned the papal seat to Rome...
Poland has been earnestly Catholic for more than 1,000 years, Rome's eastern bulwark against Mongols, Turks and Orthodox Russia. When Prussia, Russia and Austria carved Poland out of existence in three 18th century partitions, the nation's language and culture were kept alive within the spiritual fortress of the Roman Catholic Church until an independent Poland was re-created after World...