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IN PAPACY? "Have mercy on the poor new Pope who never expected to rise to this post," said Pope John Paul I to a meeting of the College of Cardinals four days after his election. "Today there's a great (Curia) congregations. It is counted on Saturday night, need that the world see us a humble and bidden work, "Cardinal (Pericle) Felici united", the new Pope told but very precious and ap- with his usually lovingness the Cardinals. preciated." came to me and said: "Together let's try to Of the Curia, the Pope 'Message for the new Pope,' give the world a good show said: "I don't know anything I said, 'Thanks, but it's not of unity, by sacrificing about it, I'm ignorant of it. yet definite' I opened the something now and then. "The first thing I did message and found a small The speech of August after the election was to 'Way of the Cross.' 30 may turn out to be a read the Annuario Pootificio "That is the road (of the promise of a new style of (red Vatican yearbook) to Papacy). Papacy. learn the organization of the "But it seems to me that Vatican officials were Holy See," he told the car- one of the personages is the caught off guard when dinals. Creme (Simon) and I hope Pope John Paul put aside The new Pope told the that my fellow cardinals the prepared text and de- cardinals that as the final will help this poor vicar of cided to speak off the cuff. votes were still being Christ to carry the cross." Proof that this is rarely (SEE ALSO PAGES 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7) if ever done when the Vatican Press office duly put out the text of the original draft, even though the Pope only used parts of it and only the tape at Vatican radio had the record of what the Pope actually did say.
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