Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out to be that chronic spoof John Kenneth Galbraith, who recently carried pseudonymity to its logical extreme by reviewing the pseudonymous Report from Iron Mountain under the pseudonym Herschel McLandress. One of the mysteries of the 1962 Vatican Council was the man named Xavier Rynne who wrote so knowingly of the proceedings for The New Yorker; it later developed that a Catholic theologian, Father Francis Xavier Murphy, then residing in Rome, did much of the writing. One author who has so far escaped detection is Raymond...
...Second Voice. With a knack for administration that was to serve him so well in New York, the young priest brought American publicity techniques to the Vatican, introducing such novelties as the mimeographed handout and the background news conference. The first voice heard on Vatican Radio in 1931 was the Pope's; the second was Spellman...
...most significant aspect of his seven years in the Vatican was his friendship with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. No two men could have presented a greater contrast. Thin to the point of ascetism, Pacelli towered over Spellman, whose round, beaming face invariably drew the adjective "cherubic." Yet when the chubby Yankee Irishman was consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius...
...doctrine, the cardinal was a conservative, though he loyally implemented changes in the liturgy when they were approved by the Vatican Council. He denounced from the pulpit movies that he considered immoral, opposed public aid for birth control as strenuously as he promoted public aid for parochial schools. In a famous instance in 1949, he accused Eleanor Roosevelt of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother" for her opposition to state aid to Catholic schools...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...