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Letter From Rome
Page 7 from 26th April 1963by Alan McElwain SOMEONE among the Servants of Mary, who run :he Church of Santa Maria in Via, in the heart of Rome. showed a superb sense of drama......
Little Hope Of A Dispensation
Page 10 from 31st July 1992round to his seminarians. Perhaps this is the best possible defence against breaches of celibacy: to have bad breath from smoking. The same......
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......
Cardinal Who Nearly Broke Tradition Twice
Page 1 from 21st May 1971FROM ALAN McELWAIN IN ROME I N 1958 it was already being suggested that, for the first time in four centuries, the "always an Italian for Pope"......
The Church Of Today
Page 6 from 25th September 1964From Blackfriars, Oxford T HE CHURCH, by Giovanni Battista, Cardinal Montini, is a collection of radio addresses, discourses and pastoral letters......
Vatican-polish Relations
Page 3 from 10th November 1972A N era in post-war Vatican history has drawn to a close and the Holy See seems to be clearing the decks for a Church - State agreement With the......
Obituary:
Page 5 from 1st September 2000Mgr Dilwyn J.D. Lewis From valley to Vatican T HE FACT THAT Dilwyn Lewis, who has died aged 76, did not end his days as a Cardinal Archbishop was......
Vatican Will Publish War Documents
Page 1 from 19th February 1965From ALAN McELWAIN A WHITE PAPER based on documents covering relations between the Holy See and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich will be published......
Paul, The First Modern Pope
Page 8 from 1st August 2008N o pope of the 20th century has been more eclipsed by his predecessors and successors than Pope Paul VI. Blessed Pope John XXIII is remembered for......