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Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolf is 89 years old and still rich in the esteem of his subjects. So when a constitutional commission announced a plan to strip the throne of its few remaining political powers, it also announced that there would be no change until the accession of 26-year-old Crown Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte. No longer head of the armed forces, no longer charged with resolving Cabinet crises, the future King will rattle around in a 700-room palace, having little to do except entertain dignitaries and pass out Nobel Prizes...
Pope Paul VI shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns...
Above all, the Spanish clergy and hierarchy have changed. Vatican attitudes toward the church's posture in Spain began to shift during the reign of Pope John XXIII, particularly in the liberal climate created by his Second Vatican Council. Then, in 1967, Pope Paul VI named Italian Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio as Apostolic Nuncio-papal ambassador-to Spain. Dadaglio arrived in Madrid with a virtual mandate to bring new blood into the Spanish hierarchy. With an assist from Franco's able ambassador to the Holy See, former Washington Envoy Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, Dadaglio engineered the appointment...
Natalie O'Connor, director of the CSC, said yesterday. "The suit will charge the CCCD with violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which makes Federal assistance available only in programs with no discrimination against race, color, or national origin...
...Title VI reads that where "national origin minority groups" are involved--as in Cambridge--special measures to deal with the language problem must be undertaken...