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...days the prisoners of Rome's Regina Coeli prison anxiously studied their catechisms. Then at 8 one morning last week, Pope Paul VI, 66, arrived to celebrate Mass, the first modern Pope ever to do so in a jail (Pope John XXIII visited the same prison in 1958, but did not say Mass). Four prisoners assisted Paul at the ceremony, and more than 600 inmates received Communion. Afterward, with the men pressing freely around him, the Pontiff was moved to tears, as he told them: "I have come to kindle in each of you a flame that may have...
...Presiding Bishop, Lichtenberger has been a middle-church moderate, with strong interests in the ecumenical movement and civil rights. In 1961, when he paid a courtesy call on John XXIII, he became the first U.S. Episcopal bishop in history to visit a Pope. Until last February, Lichtenberger was head of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, and last Pentecost he issued an impressive pastoral letter urging all Episcopalians to work actively for the cause of equal justice. "Bishop Lichtenberger has spent his life in the service of Christ," says Publisher Clifford P. Morehouse, layman-president...
...Cardinal told a Holmes Hall audience that the Second Vatican Council, known as the Ecumenical Council, would "go down in history as the greatest religious gathering of the century," and he termed the late Pope John XXIII, who called the Council, one of the Church's outstanding popes...
...Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship sinks. A firing squad fires. Bodies hang upside down in Rome. Bruce Conner could be interpreted as a kind of Cotton Mather XXIII. His point seems to be that if you start with a beautiful nude, death and violent destruction soon follow...
...timid boy." And from the age of 14, in 1896, until a year before his death in 1963, Angelo Giuseppe Ron-call i kept a record of his thoughts and dreams on odd pieces of paper. Lovingly edited by his long-time personal secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII's diary, titled The Journal of a Soul, was published in Rome. At 15, the Pope-to-be was already praying "more than anything else, for union with the separated churches"; at 21, as a seminarian, he mused: "Even if I were to become Pope, when I shall appear...