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Everything took on a grander scale then. At one feast, the Archbishop of York laid in 300 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale, 100 tuns of wine, 104 oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, 304 piglets, 400 swans, 2000 geese, 1000 capons, 2000 pigs, 104 peacocks, over 13,000 other birds, 12 porpoises and seals and 13,000 dishes of jelly and all this was only for part of the meal...
...different from our own," he said of the U.S. "They actually enjoy confrontation and they tend to politicize where we play things down." But what of the danger that approval of women priests would rupture the fragile ecumenical bridge that the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are building? Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan, the highest primate of the church and a proponent of women priests, sought to ease that concern by declaring of the Catholics: "I think they would welcome our lead." But in the end, the women were turned down. As Graham Leonard, bishop of Truro and leader...
More than 200,000 people were packed into St. Peter's Square when Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, 58, Archbishop of Cracow, received the ceremonial vestment as the 263rd successor to St. Peter and spiritual leader of some 700 million Roman Catholics. As the Cardinals of the church filed forward to pay him homage, he spoke warmly, and often at length, with each, disregarding the presence of television cameras. The most electric moment came when Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski knelt to kiss the papal ring. John Paul lifted his stern old mentor to his feet, embraced him, then kissed the Polish...
...record against all artificial methods in his book Love and Responsibility (1960) before Paul VI took the same position in his much attacked Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968. But the book also emphasized sexual pleasure for married couples ?an advanced view for a pre-Vatican II archbishop. Wojtyla has also taken an uncompromising stand against liberalized abortion, yet another issue on which he opposes Poland's Communist regime...
Poland's shrewd, 77-year-old Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, has pressed this opposition role ever since he became Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1948. When Cardinal Wojtyla joined the battle, he used his intellectual powers to persuade both disaffected liberal Catholics and Marxists to take the church seriously. The new Pope, says a Czech Jesuit in exile, has been "more dangerous for Communist countries than Cardinal Wyszynski, because he combats Marxism also on theoretical grounds, and with such success that they have been hard put to refute his arguments...