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President Kennedy will not be the first American layman to receive a private audience with Pope Paul VI. A Republican beat him to it: former Vice President Richard Nixon, 50, who is touring Europe and the Middle East with his family. The visit lasted half an hour, and Nixon, a Quaker, emerged greatly impressed with the new leader of Roman Catholicism. "He is decisive and original. He has a great understanding of world affairs." On the subject of formal U.S. relations with the Vatican, Nixon said that he "personally would like to see very close and continuing contact with...
...More Fervent Life. New life has also come to some of the ancient patriarchates. Says His Beatitude Theodosios VI of Antioch:*"Our church is health ier today than it has been for the last 1,000 years." The Antioch patriarchate, fairly well supplied with funds by Syrian and Lebanese emigrants to the U.S., is busily restoring old churches and building new ones, has an active youth movement called the St. Nicholas So ciety, and can afford to give many of its new priests graduate training...
...Paul VI began following the path blazed by John with his very first actions as Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...
...Paul VI promised to continue John's work for Christian unity: "The common aspiration to reintegrate the unity sorrowfully broken in the past will find in us an echo of fervent will and moving prayer." And he would work also for peace-"a peace which is not only an absence of warlike rivalries and armed factions, but a reflection of the order wished by the Lord, creator and redeemer, a constructive and strong will for understanding and brotherhood, a clear-cut expression of good will, a never-ceasing desire of active concord, inspired by the true well-being...
...with a fatherly love of men rather than ideas. The new Pope, says one Spanish Catholic layman who has worked with him, "is a Gothic priest not only in physical appearance but in spiritual formation. He has a subtle intelligence and a strong hand." Subtle, strong-handed Pope Paul VI will unquestionably differ from John in his stand on the great questions that face his church...