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...special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul VI often doffed his cassock and worked in shirtsleeves...
...policy, the unknown Pope. In his days in office John Paul was able to sign only one major decree, and even that will now become invalid: a sweeping reform of seminaries that he had postdated for December release. Ironically, the same document was approved by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, whose postdated signature also became invalid when he died. Now the document must await the scrutiny of a third Pope...
DIED. Valerian Gracias, 77, one of India's three Roman Catholic Cardinals and the Archbishop of Bombay; of cancer; in Bombay. In 1953 Gracias became the first Indian-born Cardinal, and in 1964 he was host to Paul VI on the first papal visit to the Far East. Ill since last May, Gracias did not attend the election of Pope John Paul I in Vatican City...
...much of the story of the proceedings in the Sistine Chapel. It is clear that Luciani came to power through no accident, but as a result of a spontaneous consensus that evolved from three agreements reached during the lengthy pre-conclave period that followed the death of Pope Paul VI...
...Pope Paul VI named Luciani Patriarch of Venice,* one of the most prestigious posts in the Italian church. Four years later came the red hat of Cardinal. In Venice, a vast archdiocese that numbered 3.6 million Catholics, he forthrightly declared that "the true treasures of the church are the poor." He thereupon authorized the clergy to dispose of church gold and jewels to raise funds to aid the handicapped...