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When the man who was to become Pope Paul VI was serving as the No. 2 official at the Vatican Secretariate of State back in 1948, he chose shrewd, witty Giovanni Benelli as his right-hand man. Four years after assuming the papal throne in 1963, Paul installed Benelli in his own former job at State, and ever since then Benelli has been the tireless "executive director" of the Vatican...
...that it was treated in a closed-door session and was never listed on the bishops' public agenda. Although repeal had never come before the bishops' conference before, it passed after only 30 minutes of discussion. The removal of excommunication requires the personal approval of Pope Paul VI, but that should be a mere formality. For one thing, the bishops' vote to ask for the change was a lopsided 231 to 8; for another, only the U.S. church has ever imposed blanket excommunication...
...Canterbury, Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 46 million Anglicans in 1974, he became the first Evangelical to lead the Church of England in 126 years. Last week the zealous and professorial Archbishop traveled to Rome for his first meeting with Pope Paul VI and made an unexpected and dramatic bid for Anglican and Roman Catholic intercommunion...
Died. Emile Cardinal Biayenda, 50, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brazzaville, the Congo; kidnaped from his Brazzaville home and slain. One of eight black African Cardinals, Biayenda was made the first Congolese primate by Pope Paul VI in 1973. He was killed five days after the assassination of Congolese President Marien Ngouabi, of whose socialist policies he approved. Some observers fear that the murders may be a new beginning of tribal warfare in the Congo...
Even as a child, "Lillibet," as royal baby talk dubbed her, proves a hard act for Lacey to humanize. It is as if she were born with her crown on. Her grandfather George V had written to her father George VI: "Now that you are five years old I hope you will always try and be obedient and do at once what you are told, as you will find it will come much easier to you the sooner you begin." The advice helped give her father a lifelong case of the stammers. Elizabeth appears to have thrived on it, suffering...