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...were like the 82 countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Jadot would be a nuncio, a papal ambassador accredited to the capital. In the absence of such ties, Jadot's mission as Apostolic Delegate is directly to the U.S. church. His duties, nonetheless, embrace the diplomat's task of reporting home on every pertinent detail about his host country. In his two years in the U.S., Archbishop Jadot has plunged into American life as no other Apostolic Delegate has done since the post was established...
...periodicals which are examined by the speed-reading prelate (1,000 words per minute in English) and six assistants. Jadot briefs the Holy See on many subjects, from the controvery over women priests to such matters as American help for famine-stricken countries, the feelings of U.S. Jews about Vatican policies, even advances in the techniques of mass communications. Most dispatches go to Rome by sealed diplomatic pouch, but more urgent messages are cabled in the Vatican's own diplomatic code...
...theology developed in Latin America in the 1960s. One influence was the Second Vatican Council, which sharpened concern for the poor and challenged old alliances between church and state that had curbed religious protest in Latin America. Another was a growing trend in the World Council of Churches to attack injustices in the Third World. Most urgent of all, there was the deepening agony of the poor all across Latin America...
Cody, 67, would normally stay in office untU he is 75. If pressures against him continue to build, the Vatican will probably move slowly and very reluctantly and give him, perhaps, a post in Rome. The cardinal, who had a mild heart attack in May, has been on a vacation since June 30, and only his closest associates know his whereabouts. They say he will be back in town some time soon to take charge of what is, by all accounts, a deteriorating situation...
...tiny community of Uniates in Greece, who follow Orthodox practices but accept the supremacy of the Pope, has long been an irritant to the Greek Orthodox primate. When the Uniate bishop died earlier this year, Greece's Archbishop Seraphim, whose church's relations with the Vatican have been improving, let it be known that he wanted the Pope to appoint a mere administrator rather than a bishop to head the Uniate church. Last week, however, Pope Paul rejected the idea and named another bishop to the office. The furious Seraphim declared this to be an "ecclesiastical scandal...