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Strolling through his gardens near Pope Leo XIII's former summer residence (now the Vatican radio station), Pope John XXIII came upon the highest point in Vatican City, admired the vista and the ancient Tower of Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...
...unbroken line of Popes from the Disciple Peter to John XXIII underlies the Roman Catholic claim to be the one true church of Christ. But it is a complex line to trace-as is demonstrated in the Vatican's just-published, red-covered, 1,784-page Pontifical Yearbook for 1961. Missing from the new edition is Pope Stephen II, making Pope John the 261st Pope instead of the 262nd...
...inserted a nonexistent John XV into the reign of John XIV (983-984). This error was compounded by 1) the inclusion of Antipope John XVI (997-998) in the legitimate succession, and 2) the fact that no John XV ever existed. According to these calculations, the present Pope John XXIII is really John...
...dark-skinned, pock-marked girl who may well become the first native-born American saint* last week made another step on the long road to canonization. In a public consistory in Rome, Pope John XXIII heard church lawyers make a petition for the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha...
...Gammarelli. A shrewd papal handicapper, he felt that in case of a deadlock the compromise candidate might be an old customer of his, Venice's Cardinal Roncalli, and cut the garments for the large man with him in mind. Bonaventura's hunch was right: when Pope John XXIII appeared on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square to give his first public blessing, he was dressed in the perfectly fitting white soutane Gammarelli had made...