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While reporters fumed, Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, head of the Vatican press office, excused the standards as "merely a rephrasing of the old rules." In point of fact, only three journalists, have had their Vatican credentials lifted in the past 18 years-and only one lost his permanently. Vatican press briefings, moreover, have increased and improved (TIME, Oct. 31). Yet some officials-among them Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Giovanni Benelli-apparently felt the need to protect themselves against misinterpretation. Explained a Vatican insider: "Journalists today try to write like theologians, getting involved in highly controversial doctrinal matters. Any journalist...
...emotional defense of Jackie by Cushing-who had presided at her first wedding in 1953 and at John Kennedy's funeral ten years later-was not very well received in Rome either. Before Cushing spoke out, the Vatican's chief press officer, Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, had expressed the church's official view that Jackie had "knowingly violated the law of the church" and was ineligible to receive the sacraments. Although reluctant to dispute a cardinal, Vatican theologians simply reiterated their interpretation of the church's law after Cushing's statement...
...church's old teaching against birth control a doubtful law? Although many theologians cannot see how the matter could be interpreted otherwise, Rome insists that the answer is no. Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, the Vatican's official press officer, said that the present teaching is still to be considered "certain," and that if the church changes, it will be "from one state of certainty to another state of certainty...
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