Pope Paul VI
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Vol. XCVII, No. 261°— Manchester, Conn., Monday, August 7, ld78 Newsstand copy 20 cents / V Cardinals summoned to Rome Inside today Church starts ritual il Pope Paul VI to select next pope The guns fell silent briefly in Lebanon, and West German VATICAN CITY (UPI) - The gave up because of the pushing and television broke into its regular Vatican summoned the princes of the shoving and tried to turn back, programming with Mozart’s Roman Catholic church from around further impeding the flow of visitors “R^uiem .” In New York, the the world to Rome today to begin the to the papal chamber. word passed solemnly from ritual of choosing a successor to Flags throughout Italy were church to church: “Ring your ordered flown at half staff for three bells. The pope has died.” See Pope Paul VI, who died Sunday at the age of 80. days — the period of public mourning page 14. ’The Vatican announced that the before the body of the pontiff is Pope Paul Vi’s successor, pope’s body 'wtH- be moved buried in the crypts of St. Peter’s. whose election will decide the Wednesday from the papal summer A man fired several pistol shots in future of the Roman Catholic palace at Castel Gandolfo to the St. Peter’s Square today while Church, probably will come from Vatican and that burial would take mourners were gathering outside the a group of fewer than 20 car place in St. Peter’s Basilica next great Basilica. No one was injured dinals. See page 14. VAC Saturday. and the man escaped into the maze of Following the burial, there will be narrow streets as police gave chase. Manchester nine days of requiem Masses in the ’The motive for the shooting was not 'known. Manchester Democrats, basilica celebrated by nine Cardinals who will take part in the awesome divided over gubernatorial can Summons issued task of electing a new leader of the ’The official summons calling the didates, work toward the primary world’s 700 million Roman Catholics. election but they say the fight will cardinals — the princes of the church The Vatican officials said the not split them. See page 2. — to Rome was issued by the dean of precise place of Paul’s burial in St. Two Irish teen-agers say the Sacred College of Cardinals, Car Peter’s had not yet been determined. je r ’ farewell to each other in dinal Carlo Confalonieri. Manchester, knowing that things Other popes are buried in the Under norms established by Pope won’t be the same when they The body of Pope Paul VI lies in state at palace. The pope died Sunday after a heart at church’s grottoes, directly under the Paul in 1975, the conclave of Car rs are su- main altar. meet again in Northern Ireland. dinals to choose his successor must i’ort Worth Castel Gandolfo, the pontiff’s summer tack. (UPI photo) The late pope’s body will lie in ligmnent is See page 3. begin between 15 and 20 days of his work. And state in the basilica ’Thursday and death, or between Aug. 21 and 26. only has it Friday in front of the main altar, the There are 131 members of the mthrough- East Hartford officials said. College of Cardinals but only 115 of On Saturday a requiem mass will it is being The Board of Education will them are under the age of 80 and communi- Death renews fears be said over the body and then it will consider a proposal for busing of therefore eligible to vote. mnUng CB be buried. it was in students to Blast Catholic High At Castel Gandolfo, an estimated most per- School in Manchester. See page Summer palace open 3,000 persons, many of them priests lunications 7. The Vatican today opened the and nuns, formed an orderiy line and The Redevlopment Agency summer palace at Castel Gandolfo to stood in the rain outside the summer n could be of revolt in .church the public to view the body of the palace, waiting for up to four hours meets tonight to consider plans the state for a health care center and to pope lying in state. ’The pontiff died to get inside the 17th century palace. Forces that hear updates from developers. By ERNEST SAKLER and orders, French traditionalist in the mustard-colored 17th-century When a small side door to the iunteers to See page 7. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre set up palace Sunday three hours after suf paiace was first opened to the veryone to VATICAN CITY (UPI) - The { Analysis ) his own seminary, ordained his own hourmoni- death of Pope Paul VI renewed fears fering a heart attack while listening visitors, crowds Jammed the 9. Let’s do priests and toured Europe and the to a mass in his private chamber. stairway leading to the third-floor of ,a conservative, backlash against Americas campaigning for a church ^Connecticut church reforms he instituted and a of its pomp and ceremony and inter ’The first official visitor to the room .where the pontiff’s body lay. like that of his forefathers. liberal revolt against his finn stand nationalize its Italian-dominated beige-painted room where the Several fainted from the heat and Republican Party Chairman bureaucracy. Lefebvre’s supporters are believed scarlet-clad pope lay on a catafalque crowding as they waited to climb the F red^ck Biebel says publicity on birth control and priestly to be in the tens of thousands and his celibacy. His appeals for world peace and near a statue of his precedessor, stairs. generated by the Democratic social Justice and against racism won financial backing is considerable. John XXIII, was Socialist President The body of the pontiff was tilted primary fight will not overpower Paul’s successor must map the the church wide suppor.f in Third Only a mixture of firmness and cau Sandro Pertini. slightly on a wooden bier covered the OOP’s campaign efforts. See church’s response to that double World countries. tion on the part of the Vatican has ’Then there was near pandemonium with a silver cloth with silver and page 7. challenge. At the same time, his reforms an prevented his movement so far from as thousands of local residents and gold edging. The federal government is Pope Paul gave the church a new tagonized church conservatives. developing into Roman Catholicism’s foreign tourists climbed five flights Dressed in his traditional white- pressuring Connecticut to clean liturgy, replacing the ancient Latin Movements against the vernacular first 20th century schism. of narrow stairs to see the body. Peo and-gold papal vestments with a up its air and two powerful groups of the Mass with the language of the mass sprang up in the United States Reformer as he was in some fields. ple fainted on almost each landing of are seeking a court order to get people, and a simplified administra and other countries. Pope Paul firmly retained church the narrow, hot stairway and many New York and New Jersey to See Page Ten tion. He stripped the Vatican of much Defying papal warnings, appeals Sec Page Ten Jielp. Sec page 8. i ” . - I The nation Area clergymen New flood warnings are issued for the Texas hill country where rescue workers are still searching express sadness for people missing in last week’s flash floods. See page 16. Once the multi-billion dollar ap Clergy in Manchester and East be so- soon,” Father Archambault propriations bills are out of the Hartford Catholic parishes expressed said. way, the House hopes to act on a sadness and surprise today at the Father Archambault went to tax cut bill and an ERA extension. death Sunday of Pope Paul VI. Europe last fall with Father Carroll See page 20. One of those most affected perhaps and another Catholic priest from •P is the Rev. William Carroll, co Waterbury, but Father Archambault pastor of St. Jam es Church in became ill and had to return home adm its, The world Manchester. Father Carroll attended before reaching Rome. whatever a public audience with Pope Paul last The pope was a very spiritual man, »m e des- U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus October in Audience Hail at the according to Father Archambault, insecure Vance arrives in Egypt, pledging Vatican. and did an extraordinary job of ; always that the U.S. will persevere in ef He also attended the pope’s 80th carrying on the work of “an extraor- forts to find peace in the Mideast. birthday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. to ary church leader (Pope John) lotes sev- See page 10. iUes con- Fortunate enough to be seated only who instituted many changes in the Survivors recount horror of a about 10 rows from the altar. Father church.” oys. bus crash that killed 41 persons, what Carroll had an excellent opportunity “He was a very spiritual man and many of them handicapped, in that’s what carried him through the iosyncra- Eastman, Quebec. See page 16. to observe the pope close by. of baths, "He seemed very feeble and he difficult periods in his papacy,” ing good walked slowly, with difficulty, Father Archambault said.