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A triumph for the man
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Pope Paul would not be by the endless drone of so-called progressives who dream of a heaven on earth while the same earth envelops itself in death -dealing technological and economic slavery. In the end, Pope Paul could look at his own forthcoming death and preach himself the Resurrection of Pope Paul laid .the Christ for which no earthly paradise will ever be a subChurch on the line. stitute. For the spectators on the That was the mission sideline, it meant that no longer could they have the Christ gave him to do. luxury of not making up (SEE ALSO PAGES 2, 3, their minds. 4 and 5)
261st successor of St. Peter, but history may well contemplate the significant turn of pro- Under -Secretary of State, Hat that went almost auto- after a lack -lustre opening that justice called limit to vidence that he was knew every moment of the matically with the position. session of the Second Va- support the great two surely the final pain was to watch his own country Church's struggle to surthe man thirds Legend will claim that an tican Council, not the 260th. the poor countries. finally collapse into the vive in the years before, aircraft stood ready at whose career had surely Winston Churchill could morass of abortion. during and after World
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The 50 Cardinals who entered the conclave on October 25, 1958 to elect a successor to Pope Pius XII knew well the question the world had asked.
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For the Cardinals and possibility that the electors the world knew that John would acclaim him a candiBaptist Montini was 480 date from outside their kiiometres to the north ranks. Where was the tiny figure where he had been ArchIt was not to be. in black who for 15 years bishop of Milan since 1954. Only God's hand could hovered ceaselessly at the The twist of fate was that have steered their thoughts elbow of Pope Pius XII, he had turned down that to that most unlikely of and who, as diplomat and year the Cardinal's Red men. Angelo Roncalli. Not only would he be the traditional stop-gap Pope
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destined him for the Papacy would enter the Vatican in 1963 and lead the Church through three soul -stirring sessions of the Council and chart the course of the Church for the critical 15 years to follow.
Pope Paul does not need the monotonous debate of the pundits about whether he was conservative or progressive. Pope Paul was the emhe was 77 he had bodiment of the Church lived his life away from because the Second Vatican Rome and had played little Council had perceived that part in life at the centre the one issue that conof the Church. fronted the Church was The rest is history. the very Church
do no mol-e-than name the Iron Curtain but Pope Paul had watched as it crashed down on millions of Catholics whose existence became all but forgotten to the rest of the Church.
LOST CHURCH
He hammered on the doors of the East, sending his envoyS on every possible search to find the Lost Church, to reach out with a Father's hand. With courage and vision that has shown up the faint-hearted, he launched the revision of the Church's itself. sacramental life because the Pope Paul took the Church cannot afford the A CARDINAL Church to where he knew luxury of prayer that no Six weeks after his elec- it needed to be whether it longer has any L-les-ance for tion, Pope John XXIII ap- was welcome or not, people in real life. pointed Montini a cardinal He went to the summits It is a sign of the calm making cer ain of his of nations and governments presence at the next Papal and told them year after faith of the man that he election that Pope John year that the relentless endured in mortified silence knew would not be long search for peace had to be the sad antics of a senile archbishop who contempcoming. their goal. tuously paraded his disoFive weeks later he made bedience before the eyes of the decision that genera- ARMS AND THE POOR the world. tions of Roman lobbyists He told them the unHe looked squarely at had been unable to achieve: welcome news that the the suffocating sterility that There would be a General colossal expenditure on is relentlessly destroying Council of the Church. arms was a plague on the married love and took his The world cheered. little poor of the earth. stand. realising that when Pope He told the rich countries Recently he spoke of the I John laid down his burden of one third of the globe pain fie .had suffered and
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