Word: vatican
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...Saturday the Baptist President flew by Marine helicopter to call on Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. After being greeted by tail-coated officials flanked by Swiss Guards in their strikingly colorful uniforms, Carter talked privately with the Pontiff in his study for more than an hour. After the session, Carter declared that they had reviewed such mutual "unfinished tasks" as the problems of "those suffering from hunger, from poverty and disease." The President thanked the Pontiff for his efforts to free the U.S. hostages in Iran...
DIED. Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 70, one of the Roman Catholic Church's leading diplomats, who visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic...
...accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared in 1965 that Jews-ancient or modern-bear no collective guilt for Christ's death, the mostly Catholic villagers snipped some of the worst caricature out of the Daisenberger text for the 1970 run. But U.S. Jewish organizations still protested fervently...
...orders from Pope John Paul II, the Roman Catholic Church has reasserted longstanding rules for the Mass. Its decree also attacks "abuses" that have grown more or less widespread, especially in Western Europe and the U.S., since the liturgical changes of Vatican II. The Pope is clearly concerned about practices that may weaken the sacredness and ritual strength of the ancient Mass, or blur the distinction between clergy and laity. The new Vatican statement, though, is sure to stir some resistance...
Since the 12th century the Catholic Church has not served wine along with bread to communicants, but in recent years has allowed it on special occasions. U.S. bishops want to permit the practice on Sundays, but the Vatican says no. Many American parishes have begun to use wine more regularly, following Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, which use both bread and wine on all occasions. American Catholics have also taken to using "altar girls" as well as boys to help with the service, though that practice has always been officially against the rules too. Said a disgruntled Washington, D.C., priest...