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...modern Pope has tried more earnestly than Paul VI to control the proudly independent Society of Jesus. When the policymaking General Congregation of 235 Jesuits from 80 countries convened three months ago in Rome, Pope Paul made known that he wanted no changes made regarding the "fourth vow" of special loyalty to the Pope, which some Jesuits take in addition to the three usual vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. His reasoning: to extend the elitist vow to all Jesuit priests (fewer than 50% are now allowed to take it) would weaken it as a commitment. Undaunted, the Congregation...
...Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, reserved for the rare event, had been walled up for a quarter of a century. Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal...
Banned from the Pulpit. No less colorful than his accuser, the Abbé de Nantes was banned from the pulpit in the diocese of Troyes in 1966 for his inflammatory opinions, one of which is that Pope Paul VI is a heretic. Placing a crucifix at the base of the courtroom microphone, the abbe told the court that Isorni had falsified the New Testament. ("Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him," according to John 5:18, because he had not only broken the sabbath, but said that God was his father.) Absolution of the Jewish people would amount...
...Charity of St. Joseph. The cardinal was leading a pilgrimage to Rome, where Mother Seton was beatified by Pope John XXIII on St. Patrick's Day in 1963. Last week after 32 cardinals assembled in the Vatican to cast their ballots in a secret consistory, Pope Paul VI issued a decree of canonization on her behalf. Thus, on Sept. 14 in St. Peter's Church, Mother Seton will become America's first native-born saint. (Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized American, was canonized in 1946, but like some 2,000 other Roman Catholic saints...
...chosen words managed to insult both Italians and Catholics everywhere. At a breakfast meeting with newsmen, Butz set forth his belief that population control would be necessary to meet the rising demand for food by the world's hungry. A reporter reminded Butz that Pope Paul VI had opposed population control in an audience with delegates to last month's World Food Conference in Rome, a point of view that angered many of those concerned, like Butz, about overpopulation. But Butz heedlessly reiterated his position in a mock Italian accent: "He no playa the game, he no maka...