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...VATICAN CITY--Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gathered for the second papal funeral in less than two months yesterday at the burial of Pope John Paul...
...Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking news photos that once filled the opening pages of LIFE. The new monthly will go to press two weeks before it is distributed...
...Bombay; of cancer; in Bombay. In 1953 Gracias became the first Indian-born Cardinal, and in 1964 he was host to Paul VI on the first papal visit to the Far East. Ill since last May, Gracias did not attend the election of Pope John Paul I in Vatican City...
DIED. Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Leningrad and Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...
...leaders also called for the government to allow the broadcasting of religious programs and asked the faithful to listen to Vatican Radio...