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These issues and many more besides will be on the minds of the Cardinals in conclave, but their overwhelming preoccupation will, of course, be with the secrecy-shrouded, ritual-encrusted process of choosing the next Vicar of Jesus Christ. According to one frequently heard scenario, the right and the left will knock each other off and a moderate will emerge as the winner?an Italian moderate. The trouble with that scenario is that two clearly defined blocs no longer exist. Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes. The candidates form a mass...
...Cardinal Ursi, 70, Archbishop of Naples. A widely admired pastor of the poor, Ursi travels from parish to parish to be sure all his people are cared for. His serious drawback is his parochialism: he speaks only Italian and has never served outside the country. Ugo Cardinal Poletti, 64, vicar-general for the Pope as Bishop of Rome, has been mentioned as a candidate because of his own concern with the capital's poor, but his efforts have been less intense and less successful than Ursi's. One powerful Italian, Pericle Felici, 67, who heads the Vatican commissions...
...Vicar of Jesus Christ, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome and Servant of the Servants of God-these are among the many titles that impose unique burdens on the Pope, the anointed spiritual leader of 683 million Roman Catholics, the world's largest body of Christians. Few of the 261 successors to St. Peter worked at that responsibility more tirelessly than Giovanni Battista Montini, Pope Paul VI. Sunday night, after suffering a heart attack while hearing Mass in bed at Castel Gandolfo, Paul, 80, died, laying down the burden...
...confessor that in tormented night hours, she is forced to utter obscene words and participate in obscene acts. The nuns in her charge are similarly afflicted. In a fit of possession, with her strangulated sepulchral voice suggesting The Exorcist, Sister Jeanne reveals the devil inside -Grandier-a neighboring vicar whom she has never actually seen...
DIED. Luigi Cardinal Traglia, 82, dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Rome. After the death of Pope John XXIII, Traglia was widely mentioned as a possible successor. The Pro-Vicar General of Rome (1965-68), he was the city's principal ordaining bishop and responsible for the seal of ecclesiastical approval bestowed on all books published in Rome that fall within the church's authority. Celebrated for his erudition, Traglia was known in Vatican circles as "the living archive...