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...black garments, droning Latin phrases toward the east" wall of the cathedral, striding from one side of the altar to the other as he ceremonially poured wine into a chalice or read from a black-bound missal. Much of the mystery will soon be modified. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated the first and almost only concrete accomplishment of the Vatican Council: a 12,000-word constitution that authorizes what could become the most sweeping liturgical reforms in Roman Catholic history...
...Roman Catholic Church also made a small move toward decentralizing its authority. In a papal letter addressed to the bishops, Paul VI gave them permanently 40 minor rights and several privileges that many of them had enjoyed on a temporary, renewable basis. Among these powers: permission to let illegitimate males become seminarians and to grant certain dispensations necessary before Catholics and Protestants...
...been the wish of my life to visit the Holy Land," wrote Giovanni Battista Montini, then Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan, to a bishop friend in November 1962. Last week, in his final address to the Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI surprised the prelates by announcing that he will indeed visit the holy places of Jordan and Israel on a three-day trip next month. It will be the first papal voyage outside Italy since Napoleon forced the unhappy Pius VII to take up residence at Fontainebleau in 1812, and the first time since the days of St. Peter that...
...that order was one of the few clear-cut decisions made by Pope Paul, who seemed to justify John XXIII's description of him as "a Hamlet"-and who must bear a large share of the blame for the session's disappointing record. Like his predecessor, Paul VI preferred to stay out of sight so that the bishops could act in freedom; but he often failed to intervene when intervention was called for, and sometimes settled for half-measures when he did act. Fortnight ago, for example, he finally responded to petitions signed by a number of bishops...
...chapter appeared to be in a strong position: Pope Paul VI was reportedly angered when Radio Cairo cited The Deputy-a West German play that accuses Pope Pius XII of tacitly approving Hitler's anti-Semitism-as evidence that Catholics share Moslem hatred of the Jews. To Paul, the Jewish chapter appears opportune. Though the chapter is being used politically by both Arabs and Israelis, both Bea and Pope Paul have been assured that there will be no overt repression of Christians in Arab lands...