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...been the wish of my life to visit the Holy Land," wrote Giovanni Battista Montini, then Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan, to a bishop friend in November 1962. Last week, in his final address to the Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI surprised the prelates by announcing that he will indeed visit the holy places of Jordan and Israel on a three-day trip next month. It will be the first papal voyage outside Italy since Napoleon forced the unhappy Pius VII to take up residence at Fontainebleau in 1812, and the first time since the days of St. Peter that...
...casket. To others, it was Hail to the Chief, or the Navy hymn, or Onward, Christian Soldiers. To some, it was the ageless rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. But to others, it was the fact that those rituals are not changeless-as evidenced when Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, who had married John and Jacqueline Kennedy and baptized their children, neared the end of the Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into Paradise." And to a few, it was the time when Air Force One, the blue...
Former President Dwig D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover both issued statements of sorrow in New York City. Former President Harry S. Truman said he was "shocked beyond words." Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston and a lifelong friend of the Kennedy family, said "This terrible tragedy has deprived our country of one of its greatest Presidents...
...Rome she was welcomed by Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, who had been attending the Vatican Council; then she was whisked to a tree-shaded convent for a rest. Eventually, Mme. Nhu insists, she will return to South Viet Nam. Said she: "My burden will be hard indeed, for the Devil has not been disarmed and is still trying to beat me down...
...complicate matters still more, 43 of Sarita's relatives sued to set aside the entire will, charging that Brother Leo had exercised a Svengali-like influence over a sick old woman of unsound mind. Eventually, Rome's Consistorial Congregation sent Archbishop John Krol of Philadelphia down to Texas to find out what was going...