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...Eminence Julius Cardinal Dopfner was the youngest bishop in Europe at the age of 35; ten years later, in 1958, he became the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. Today he governs the powerful See of Munich, and was one of four prelates chosen by Pope Paul VI as "moderators" to oversee the debates at the second session of the Vatican Council. Last week he made the most direct statement yet by any cardinal on the need for a genuine reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and defined that reformation-already begun, but as yet unfinished-as the true...
Last week President Johnson seemed to be sending up a trial balloon for Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. He had asked Shriver, off on a Peace Corps inspection trip, to deliver personal, confidential messages from the President to Pope Paul VI in the Holy Land, to Jordan's King Hussein, and to Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol...
...This moment, Your Holiness," said Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, "is one of the most significant for mankind. Humanity at its highest spiritual level has the opportunity at last to guide the world toward peace." Pope Paul VI, gesturing animatedly, often clasping his hands in prayer, replied: "Your Holiness, we must bring our churches closer together. It will not be easy, but we are already on the right road. Nothing is insurmountable in our striving to unite mankind, but we must unite beforehand...
...impressive reality to millions of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. By summoning the second Vatican Council, the fatherly Pope John XXIII put the power and influence of his office behind what promises to be a striking internal reform of Catholicism. His Holy Land trip suggested that Pope Paul VI, also, has plenty of imagination and authority, and that he may be a warmer man than past appearances would indicate...
Never before has a Pope been subjected to such literally bruising personal contact with the press. But only once did Paul VI show annoyance at the ceaseless importunities of the newsmen. In Capernaum, where he knelt to pray in the ruins of a synagogue where Christ himself is said to have preached, Paul drew back in dismay when a radio newscaster thrust a microphone directly under the papal chin...