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...forbidden to come to Czestochowa by Gomulka but nevertheless celebrated his own private millennial Mass in a small chapel among the grottoes of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, before a replica of Czestochowa's renowned Black Madonna...
...contends that the church should have its own unique understanding of authority: not power and control but, as Jesus clearly indicated, humble service and love. Too often, argues McKenzie, church leaders have forgotten this divine instruction and adopted secular standards in its place. McKenzie points out that "the Basilica of St. Peter is one of the few places in the world where one can see a full-scale live reproduction of the pageantry of a Renaissance court." The Christian concept of authority, McKenzie concludes, is not an impersonal rule of law, but an I-Thou rule of men over other...
...Somewhat more coolly, the Roman cardinals shook hands with Canterbury and the other Anglicans; only the ecumenical-minded Augustin Cardinal Bea bowed. Then Paul and Canterbury retired to the Pope's private study for a 65-minute private discussion. Next day they met for prayers together at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the (Vatican) Walls...
...opening day of the Vatican Council's fourth session last week, more than 1,500 Roman Catholic prelates assembled for a march of penance from the Church of the Holy Cross to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, half a mile away. As the chill autumnal dusk darkened the Roman sky, a priest began to chant the ancient litany; from the throats of thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen came back the droning, prayerful response: "Pardon us, O Lord." At the rear of the procession, beneath a scarlet and gold baldacchino, walked Pope Paul VI dressed in red cope...
...diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting the ballots of the world's Catholic bishops at sessions of the Ecumenical Council in St. Peter's Basilica...