VATICAN CITY [AP) • Pope John Paul I assumed the throne of St. Peter and leadership of the world's 700 million Roman Catholics yesterday in solemn, outdoor rite marked by the simplicity already a hall-mark of his papacy. Breaking more than 1,000 years of tradition, the 65-year-old pontiff donned a simple white wool stole as the shepherd of his flock and concelebrated his inaugural Mass with the...

The ongoing defense of hum an dignity through the social teachings of the C hurch was the central them e of a discussion yesterday in Was­ hington Hall by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin o f Chicago, and John Cardinal O 'C onnor o f New York. "The Pastoral C onstitution (o f the Second Vatican C ouncil) . . . ties the entire Catholic tradition 's defense of the hum an person directly to the very cen ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the perceived wisdom that papal mortality is related to the success of the Welsh rugby union team. DESIGN Retrospective observational study of historical Vatican and sporting data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Papal deaths between 1883 and the present day. RESULTS There is no evidence of a link between papal deaths and any home nation grand slams (when one nation succeeds in ...

I. Continuity or Rupture: How Did Vatican II Understand the Church’s Relation with the Modern World?1 IN A notable Christmas message given before the Roman Curia on December 22, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI cautioned against a widespread interpretation of the Second Vatican Council which would posit that the Church after the Council is different than the “preconciliar” Church. Benedict called this e...

cold and earache at the Vatican. If his ears had discharged at the Vatican or afterwards at least one of his biographers, or Reynolds himself in his diary, where he carefully recorded his eye symptoms, would have made some mention of it. Hilles quotes many of Reynolds' letters, in some of which he refers to his poor sight, but never to his poor hearing. Thus it would seem that Sir Joshua Reynol...

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...

In this article, I look at how popular hymnody and the surrounding devotional liturgical practices changed after Second Vatican Council in Hungary. The songs amongst authoritarian, atheistic circumstances sounded astonishingly similar to emerging “folk mass movement”. discourse analysis of Hungarian contributes a new perspective Eastern European Catholicism helps us understand “lived Catholicis...