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Many clerics firmly believe that youthful Theologian Küng's criticisms denigrate some venerable, valuable institutions of the church, and for them that doctorate was the last straw. On May 25, while Pope John XXIII was dying, Rome's Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities issued an instruction that would require Catholic universities to get clearance from Rome before awarding honorary degrees. The author of the decree is believed to be Archbishop Dino Staffa, who is the chief assistant to Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, the congregation's conservative prefect...
What happened at that private meeting last March between Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev...
...Catholic, I find her disregard for the sincerity of another's actions (the self-immolation of Quang Due) and her patronization of the late Holy Father John XXIII very hard to take...
...delegates were clearly impressed by the changes wrought in Roman Catholicism during the Papacy of John XXIII. Anglican Bishop Oliver Tomkins of Bristol, the Conference's presiding officer, declared that there was now the possibility of "a positive and fruitful dialogue" between Rome and other confessions. The Roman guests agreed, and Toronto's Father Gregory Baum even admitted that there was no dogmatic barrier to Rome's joining the World Council-although such a move now might be misunderstood by both Catholics and Protestants...
...concert brought to a close a week of Mozart programs at Tanglewood. Mozart's final composition, the Requiem was not completed when the composer died in 1791, and had to be finished by his pupils. Leinsdorf dedicated the Sunday performance to the memory of Pope John XXIII, who, like Mozart, "was interrupted at the height of his powers...