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Prelate Who Controls Vatican Protocol With A Smile
Page 3 from 1st December 1972HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims flock to Rome annually from all over the world seeking an audience with Pope Paul VI. Some are so situated that......

Contrasts On The Papal Throne
Page 10 from 7th August 1998(Continued from last week) I N THE year 1963, in the conclave which had now become necessary. the Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista, was, as......

What Manner Of Man Is This?
Page 6 from 28th June 1963By a special correspondent I T was on a cold January morning in 1955 that Mgr. Giovanni Battista Montini sat in a railway carriage on his way to......

Pope Planning Changes In Conclave Rules
Page 8 from 13th October 1972VATICAN CITY: There is no doubt that Pope Paul VI is planning to change the rules governing the election of a new Pope, writes James O'Neill of......

Rome Buzzing With Rumours About `secret' Cardinals
Page 2 from 7th May 1976ROME is buzzing with rumours about the identity of two new cardinals named in pectore ("in secret") by Pope Paul. Many are saying that the two are......

An Extraordinary Gift For Calm And Quiet In The Midst Of...
Page 3 from 11th August 1978A tribute by Gerard Noel, former editor of the Catholic Herald who wrote Paul VI, the Pope's biography. THE 263rd Vicar of Christ is dead, and......

Kgb Link 'blocked' Cardinal By Viviane Hewitt In Rome I...
Page 1 from 31st December 1993INTELLIGENCE services intervened in the 1963 conclave, which elected Paul VI, to block another leading candidate who was suspected of being a 52......

The Cardinal Who Would Be Pope
Page 1 from 10th July 1987by our Rome correspondent WITH the resignation of Cardinal Giuseppe Siri after 41 years as Archbishop of Genoa, the last of the Great Conciliar......

Mgr. Montini Is Going To Milan
Page 1 from 5th November 1954Named successor to Cardinal Schuster M GR. Giovanni Battista Montini, Papal Pro-Secretary of State—the Holy Father's chief collaborator in the......