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Died. Paolo Cardinal Giobbe, 92, eldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals who, before his promotion to the purple by Pope John XXIII in 1958, served 33 years in the papal diplomatic service as an emissary to Colombia and The Netherlands; in Rome...
...Speculation about retirement also surrounds the leader of world Anglicanism, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Most of his predecessors have held, Pope-like, to their posts until death. But the previous archbishop, Geoffrey Fisher, resigned in 1961 right after one of his great achievements, the historic visit to Pope John XXIII. Incumbent Archbishop Michael Ramsey, 67, is rumored to be considering a similar move if this week's Anglican Synod approves his dream of a merger with the Methodists in Great Britain. The merger failed once before to achieve the necessary 75% approval, however, and prospects this time look little...
Above all, the Spanish clergy and hierarchy have changed. Vatican attitudes toward the church's posture in Spain began to shift during the reign of Pope John XXIII, particularly in the liberal climate created by his Second Vatican Council. Then, in 1967, Pope Paul VI named Italian Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio as Apostolic Nuncio-papal ambassador-to Spain. Dadaglio arrived in Madrid with a virtual mandate to bring new blood into the Spanish hierarchy. With an assist from Franco's able ambassador to the Holy See, former Washington Envoy Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, Dadaglio engineered the appointment...
...Your Nov. 22 issue says that the late Pope John XXIII was Archbishop of Paris. Angelo Roncalli, before his election to the papacy as John XXITI, served as apostolic nuncio to France with the title of archbishop. But he was never Archbishop of Paris...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...