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...government of the church, which first took shape under strong-minded Pope Sixtus V in 1588, consists of twelve congregations-ministries would be the secular equivalent-three tribunals, five other offices. They handle every church problem from heresies to legitimatizing births. Among its most significant branches...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 47, Maine's first popularly elected Democratic U.S. Senator and previously its first Catholic Governor, and Jane Frances Gray Muskie, 34, Republican-bred former Down East dress-shop clerk: their fifth child, second son; in Washington...
...temporal authority of the Pope was under challenge by Europe's new rulers, and Cardinal Bellarmine earned the enmity of ecclesiastical conservatives (notably Pope Sixtus V) by maintaining that papal jurisdiction over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual-the position generally accepted today. On the other hand, in opposition to the Scottish jurist Barclay, he denied the divine right of kings, for which one of his books, De potestate papae, was publicly burned by the Parlement of Paris...
...Notably Sixtus V, a Franciscan famed for his rages, who in 1585 managed to get himself elected (legend has it) by pretending to be an invalid, thereby giving his rivals in the conclave the impression that he would not last long as Pope. As soon as the winning vote was counted, he picked up the stick over which he had been crouching and hurled it as far as he could, then began intoning the Te Deum so loudly that the Vatican is said to have trembled-not to mention the cardinals. He reigned for five years...
...third time during the 17 months of his reign, Pope John XXIII last week added new members to the College of Cardinals. From 1586, when Pope Sixtus V reorganized the college, the traditional membership had been fixed...