Word: trin
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DIED. Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue, 78, Viet Nam's only Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from...
...eligible. But America's John Wright, India's Valerian Gracias and Poland's Boleslaw Filipiak are too ill to participate. (Like Yu Pin, they were likely to join the conservative bloc.) If Viet Nam refuses to grant an exit visa to Joseph Marie Trin Nhu Khue of Hanoi, a total of 110 Cardinals will enter the conclave...
Moments later, a beaming Trin, the first Vietnamese prince of the church, was greeted by an enthusiastic round of applause. His appearance had lifted the anonymity from one of two men elevated to cardinal's rank in pectore (in the breast, meaning secretly) when the other 19 nominations were announced (TIME...
...Borrowed Cape. So closely was the secret kept that Cardinal Trin himself only suspected the honor awaiting him in Rome. Said the cardinal: "When I left Hanoi, I was asked by government officials why I was going to Rome. I told them truthfully that I did not know, although I vaguely asked myself, 'Could I possibly be called to be a cardinal?' " Permission to leave had come so belatedly that Trin alone still wore his purple episcopal cassock, topped with a borrowed scarlet cape and sash...
...North, the church has long been forced to pursue a modus vivendi with the Communists. As Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi since 1950, and archbishop since 1960, Trin presided over much of that accommodation. The job has its uncertainties. Said he after his investiture: "I hope that they believe me when I tell them that I did not know the reason for my call to Rome...