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...unprecedented. No Pope had ever adopted a double name; none had selected a first-of-its-kind name in a millennium. Apparently, the new Pontiff wanted to signal originality and also a bond of continuity with his two immediate predecessors: the reformer, John XXIII, and the moderator, Paul VI. Or was he evoking their New Testament forebears...
...Italians, did not want a bureaucrat from the Curia but a man who, like John XXIII, had the warmth of a good pastor. In addition, almost all the Cardinals seemed to want a man who emblemized faith as well as hope and charity, one who, like Paul VI, had a deep concern for doctrine. Luciani fitted both bills. He was also ideal in another respect. The Cardinals are always uneasy at the prospect of a lengthy papacy?15 or more years?and the Patriarch of Venice is a 65-year-old who was sickly as a child and suffered...
...Pope Paul VI, in his 1975 decree on papal elections...
...envisioned elected delegations of bishops, priests, even lay men and women trooping to Rome to choose the next Pontiff. Others, more realistic, argued that the body of papal electors should be expanded to include the sort of worldwide sampling of bishops who attended the synods convened by Pope Paul VI...
DIED. Paul Yu Pin, 77, China's only Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the Vatican conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI. After the Chinese Catholic Church was shattered in 1949 by the Communists, the towering Yu Pin (6 ft. 3 in.) was ordered by Pope Pius XII to abandon his diocese of Nanking for the U.S., and was condemned to death in absentia by the Communists...