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...went in the cold Roman dusk to take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens...
...reign of Pope John XXIII perhaps best reflects TIME'S commitment to report with equal journalistic curiosity on both the man and his church. Appearing on our cover four times during his five-year reign, John's humble character and bold deeds demanded intensive coverage. By convening the Second Vatican Council, as the 1963 Man of the Year cover explained, John "created history in a different dimension than that of the most dramatic headline of the year," which was the Cuban missile crisis...
...inaugural address to the Cardinals last week, John Paul pledged to carry forward the work of the Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962 and concluded by Paul in 1965. He would, he said, put a "priority" on the ongoing revision of the canon law codes. Last year, however, the then Cardinal Luciani commented of this project: "With Montesquieu, we must say, 'The laws need to be touched with trembling hands...
...instance a "ticket" pairing a papal candidate with a Secretary of State, the virtual Prime Minister of the Vatican. According to an informed reconstruction of the 1958 conclave, just such a gentlemen's agreement was worked out. Key Cardinals approached Angelo Roncalli, the man who became Pope John XXIII, and implied that they would vote for him in return for indirect assurances that Domenico Tardini, an experienced administrator and a Curial traditionalist, would be appointed Secretary of State. Replied Roncalli: "Eminences, one could not fail to take into consideration a man of such abilities." Soon thereafter, Roncalli was Pope...
...they selected a man with no experience in the Vatican bureaucracy or diplomatic service. John Paul is a quietly genial man whose priests find him approachable. He is also the third Patriarch of Venice to become Pope in this century. The first was Pius X.* The second was John XXIII, a beloved figure of reform...