Word: papally
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...Recently a German Protestant churchman, so the story goes, gave the Pope a cardinal bird. But the old. established birds would have none of the newcomer, and the Protestant cardinal had to leave the papal household...
...meals are sparse-spaghetti, vegetables or eggs, watered wine. He always eats alone, waited on by German-born Sister Pasqualina Lehnert, his housekeeper (sometimes jocularly known in Rome as La Papessa), or one of the four other nuns who are assigned to serve in the papal household...
...workers that someone besides the Communists was active in their interests. Merchants donated meat, fish, pasta, bread, wine and cigarettes; the city and provincial councils scraped up 3,000,000 lire ($4,800) for the workers' families. La Pira fired off a letter to the Vatican, got a papal blessing on his campaign...
...stature. Lutheran Cullmann breaks with some of his fellow Protestants in insisting on Peter's primacy in the original church, and on the genuineness of the disputed text from St. Matthew's gospel supporting it. But he sharply rejects the Catholic claim that Peter began the papal succession. His finding: "In the life of Peter there is no starting point for a chain of succession to the leadership of the church at large...
...there Cullmann stops. To construe the text as warrant of the papal succession, he argues, is something vastly different from clearing its literal meaning. Peter's leadership, he says, was an "example and pattern," nothing more. It was not until the third century that a bishop of Rome cited the Matthew text in support of his primacy. Says Cullmann: "It is arguing in a circle . . . to assert that, since on the one hand the promise of Jesus to Peter exists and on the other hand the fact exists that Rome exercised a primacy from a relatively early date...