Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week took a bold step to bridle the Society of Jesus. In a move interpreted as a warning to all religious orders, he suspended the normal workings of the Jesuit Constitutions, removed the acting leader of the organization and replaced him with two Italian Jesuits who enjoy the Vatican's confidence: Paolo Dezza, 79, and Joseph Pittau...
Pontiffs have intervened in the past by dictating the elections of Superiors General. In 1773 Pope Clement XIV even dissolved the society, a 41-year-long humiliation that some Jesuit intellectuals close to the Vatican are comparing with John Paul's treatment...
...current conflict has been building ever since the Second Vatican Council, when some Jesuits began busying themselves in social action and in questioning papal teachings. In 1973 a harried Pope Paul VI wrote Superior General Pedro Arrupe to "express our desire, indeed our demand," that the Jesuits remain loyal to the papacy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II directed Arrupe to wipe out secularism and other "regrettable shortcomings...
...deadly stock at two large but unobtrusive warehouses, in Alexandria, Va., and Manchester, England. Visiting the Manchester branch, TIME'S Kevin Dowling noted an elaborate system of files on the desk of a secretary: a folder for every country in the world, explained Cynthia Wixey, including one for Vatican City. Was there, ah, much demand from the Pope? "Mr. Cummings is very thorough," she answered. "And he's an optimist. Maybe one day they'll need new halberds for the Swiss Guards...
...peace process but also a friend"; from Bonn, where Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke of his "bewilderment and horror"; from Tokyo, where the government called Sadat "a great gladiator for peace"?and from two men who had been more fortunate than Anwar Sadat. In St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II, who was struck by a bullet just five months ago, spoke of his "emotion and pain." And in Washington, Ronald Reagan, who had decided not to attend the Sadat funeral because of security considerations, greeted the three living ex-Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford...