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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......
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"......
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......
The Danger Of A Really Holy Pope
Page 8 from 16th March 2001David Twiston Davies M uch of the discussion about the recent creation of another 44 cardinals has seemed to assume that that it is not only......
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......