Before emerging on the balcony to greet the crowd he had already been outfitted in white vestments of approximately the right dimensions – they come in S, M and L – but in the coming days Vatican-based tailors and cobblers will measure him up for the baffling array of ceremonious garments with which a pontiff needs to be equipped.
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If the officials in the Vatican judge her worthy based on the paper presented last month, she will be elevated to venerable.
Most of Vatican law is still based on the Italian code of 1889, partially updated at various points in history — the last time in 2013.
The opposition lobby got strong support from the Vatican, which attends such conferences based on its territorial possessions in Rome.
In 2003, the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, based at the Vatican, Cardinal Renato Martino, asserted that the Catholic Church supports genetic modification of food crops as an answer for world starvation and malnutrition and because "scientific progress was part of the divine plan" [ 44, 45].
The Vatican and those close to it described the meeting in the way that some Vatican-watchers had speculated in recent days, based on their own sources: Davis' meeting was not arranged by the Vatican, and it appears she was part of a procession line of people greeting the pope.
It's a long way from the Vatican to Roscoe Village, but a group based in that North Side neighborhood is leading a high-profile protest among American priests that challenges the Roman Catholic Church's ban on ordination of women.
It is impossible that a Vatican commission could be told not to question the policies of the pope during World War II based on the doctrine of infallibility ("The Vatican's Sin of Omission," by Arthur Hertzberg, Op-Ed, May 14).
While the workings of the conclave are secret, Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy, according to comments from cardinals, Vatican experts and leaks to Italian newspapers, in part because the Vatican-based cardinals protective of their bureaucracy snubbed the presumptive front-runner, and a favored candidate of reformers, Cardinal Angelo Scola.
