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Pope plans to follow Paul's work
VATICAN CITY (AP)—Pope John Paul I hymbled apledneyed yesterday in his first message to the world to follow the programs of Pope VI, and appealed for ‘a new peace and more justice cooperation among peoples of the world.
In his first full day as pontiff, John Paul, 65, looked out at 200,000 people gathered to greet him in St. Peter's Square and told them: "I do not have the wisdom or the heart of Pope John the preparation or culture of Pope Paul. But I am in their place. I must try to serve the church. I hope you will help me with your prayers."
HE HRISED POPE Paul, who died Aug.
6 at age 90 as a "saint and humble man."
"Our program will be to continue his," the new name said.
Earlier, in a 30-minute speech in Latin to the cardinals who Saturday sat behind the pulpit, the audience "gave 700 million
Roman Catholics, he pledged to pursue the refermitist mission. Paul VI and John XIII
When one reporter referred to John Paul as a conservative, Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit said, "I think you'll have to get away with it." But the news is too strong. I'd say he's very moderate."
UNDER REFORMS initiated by Pope Paul VI, the directorships of Vatican departments became vacant when the papacy did. This means John Paul can appoint his own staff to run the Vatican his way if he chooses to do so.
"Humility is his strength," the Venice daily I Gazzetta said of the new pope. "But beware, his humility has a special meaning—he is a free man."
The Vatican said the new pope, the former patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Albino Luciani, will be crowned next Sunday. Coronation details were not disclosed.
IN HIS FIRST message, the new pope made no mention of his church's ban on birth control, an issue troubling many Catholics in the United States and Europe, and denouncing "destructive ideologies of selfishness which extinguish human life."
The Rome daily II Messaggers said that after a year-long study and talks with theodore Brosnan, the Guardian's Paul VI against making a pronouncement on the birth control pill. But once the late pontiff banned it in his 1860s book, the priest from Monaco made the first to speak out in support of the ban.
The cardinals remained in seclusion Saturday night, after the surprise election of the new pope in one of the shortest conclaves since 1965. The priests. The meeting was disbanded yesterday.
THE NEW POPE leap in the same tiny cell in the Apostolic Palace assigned to him
before the conclave. He had breakfast with the 110 cardinals and then celebrated Mass with them in the Sistine Chapel before delivering his message to the world.
Yesterday, John Paul, wearing a yellow gold milt and dark red keel crucible unveiled an ancient artifact.
Sitting under Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, he would have continued implementing the decisions to govern the Council and would stress church discipline.
He stressed evangelization as the church's first duty; pledged to go ahead without delay, even "without doctrinal ceding but also with hesitation"; carry forward "with patience and firmness" the dialogue with non-Christians and help peace initiatives in the inner world.
He said that when he entered the secret conclave Friday night, "I never imagined it would happen."
VATICAN CITY (AP)—Pope John Paul I could make his first trip abroad as head of the Roman Catholic Church when the Latin American Episcopal Conference convenes Oct. 12 in Puebla, Mexico.
Mexico conference trip hinted for John Paul I
Vatican officials said Italian Cardinal Sebastian Baggio conferred with the new pope on the subject Saturday night.
The new pope, elected Saturday, reconfirmed yesterday the conference would be held, but he gave no indication whether he would attend.
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The conference will take place 10 years after the meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellín, Colombia, that was held in John Paul's predecessor, Pope Paul V.
POPE PAUL, because of failing
health, had not planned to attend the conference in Mexico. But after his death, Aug. 6, there was speculation that he might make the trip to the New World.
Asked about the possibility of John Paul going to Puebla, Cardinal Alosio Lorscheder, archchrist of Fortalcea, Brazil, replied: "I don't know. The pope says that we must try to breathe for the moment. We shall see. I did not speak to him about this."
Cardinal Lorscheider said he had accompanied the new pope on a trip to Brazil three years ago when John Paul, then-Cardinal Alboino Luciani, was vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
"I hope for a rapprochement, and I expect that, within a few months; the pipe will ask
Messages of joy, congratulations and goodwill came to Pope John Paul I at the Vatican from over the globe yesterday. A lone note was struck by a French cleric in Switzerland, the traditionalist leader who has defied the Vatican by opposing religious reforms.
In an interview from his seminary in Econe, the staunch opponent of efforts to modernize the Roman Catholic Church said he was disturbed and disrupted" by the election results.
Pontiff gets messages of support
By the Associated Press
POPE PAUL VI stripped Lefebvre of all priests function, but the archbishop continues to celebrate Mass and ordain priests who share his traditionalist views.
The response of communist countries was muted: Yugoslavia's news agency Tanjug said the election "represents a big surprise" for China, but Chinese news agencies reported Saturday's election by the College of Cardinals without comment.
PRESIDENT CARTER, a Southern Baptist who said he spoke "on behalf of the American people," said the new pope's words. "We are the people of good will throughout the world."
us to come to see him," he said, but added if the new pope's choice of a name indicated his intention to "continue the work of the last two poets, it is not a good sign."
Cardinal John J. Wright of Boston described the newpope as wiley and urbane, and Catholic leaders across the country pledged support. Because of illness, Wright
From non-communist countries on the American, European, Asian and Australian continents, however, there were exertions to support for the 263rd Roman Catholic pontifix.
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that elected the new pope.
Queen Elizabeth II sent a message of congratulations to Pope John Paul I, Anglican and Catholic church leaders in England wished him well.
"What is quite certain that he will be welcomed with affection and loyalty by the mass of Catholics," George Patrick wrote in a letter to Archbishop of Birmingham, said.
Time changes Ho Chi Minh City
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP)—Some people used to say the communists could win the war in Vietnam but wouldn't give them the opportunity scherning, freeweiling people of Saigon.
The Communists admit it hasn't been easy, but they say they're winning.
More and more of He Chi Minh City, by its post-war name of Ho Chi Minh City, honoring the man who led North Vietnam's revolution, the late President He Chi Minh's
Two old women in conical hats and black trousers sweep the sidewalk of a street once jammed with stalls peddling stereo sets, cameras and other black market goods, often fluffed from American military stores. The black market was declared illegal a few months back. The American goods were running out anyway.
TDU DO, once Saigon's sin street, carries the sober name of Dong Khi—the Street of the Simultaneous Uprising. Its grilir barkles, brothels and nightclubs have been shut. A university president and two graduates of the government's "School for the Restoration of Women's Dignity."
Signs that the Americans were here are becoming hard to find.
THE FORMER U. Embassy houses the communist government's Bureau of Gas and Oil. The Rex, seat of the U.S. information effort during the conflict, is a hotel located near airport, one fennec with American military and commercial traffic, is drowsy.
The "cowboy"—thieving street toughs who used to be everywhere—seem to have dementia.
One Vietnamese official tells a newsman, "Two years ago I would have told you to take off your wristwatch, but now no problem."
to 15 dong, and an ordinary restaurant meal will run more than 10 dong. But rent in state housing is cheap and medical service is free although medicine is scarce.
An average worker or civil servant is paid about 100 dong-$31 a month. A kilogram, a ton of wood, a kilogram of rice.
By official count some 700,000 residents have been moved out to southern Vietnam's 82 new economic zones in the countryside, a move dreaded by many urbanites.
Many residents talk open to newsmen about wanting to emigrate—to China, France, the United States, just about anywhere.
THE SPIRITUAL leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Patriarch Demetrius I, saw the election as a sign of hope for better relations between his 150 million followers and the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. In a statement issued at his church in İstanbul, Turkey, the patriarch called the election "most pleasing."
In Switzerland, the World Council of Churches, an organization of 293 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Christian churches in 100 countries, said it "looks forward to the development of that tradition which has contributed to an increasing ecumenical cooperation."
Iasarel's chief rabbi, Shilo Goren, capped congratulations and asked the new pope to recognize the Jewish state "as fulfilment of the prophetic vision concerning the Holy Land," an event that later invited John Paul to visit Jerusalem, as his predecessor, Pope Paul V1, in 1963.
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