Word: capovilla
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Apparently the Pope did most of the talking-at least according to Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary...
...Capovilla told an audience in Assisi last week that after Aleksei Adzhubei had raised the question of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the Vatican, the Pope gave him a brief homily in reply. "You are a journalist," he said, "so you know the Bible and the progression of the work of Creation. You know that the Lord took six days for the work of Creation before coming to man. But as you know, the days of the Bible are not days but epochs, and the epochs of the Bible are very long...
John himself apparently felt the meeting might have been arranged by God. After the Russians left, Capovilla said, the Pope wrote in his diary: "It may be a delusion, or it may be a mysterious thread of Providence that I, as Pope, do not have the right to break...
...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
Rest, and doctors' care, apparently brought the bleeding to a halt; but only for a few days. Early in the morning on May 26, the Pope awoke in agony and called weakly for help; the hemorrhages had begun again. His secretary, Monsignor Capovilla, summoned...