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COPY DEADLINE FOR THE PRE-FEAST GOOD NEWS The last regular issue
of The Good News to be printed before the Feast of Tabernacles this
year is scheduled for September 25. We are now making plans for a
special issue which will carry articles geared for members soon to
hit the road for their chosen Festival site. If you have any copy
you wish to include, please note that our deadline for our pre-Feast
issue is September 18. Articles received after that date will not
reach the readership of the paper until well after the Feast, if at
all. The Good News will not publish during the Feast, but will
resume normal bi-weekly {every two weeks) publication beginning
November 6. {The deadline for the November 6 issue is October 30.)
--Dexter Faulkner, Good News
A LOOK AT THE NEW ROMAN PONTIFF With a speed that surprised even
Vatican "insiders," the secret conclave of cardinals elected Cardinal
Albino Luciani, 65, as 263rd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church last
Saturday during the first day's balloting in the historic Sistine
Chapel.
Although Cardinal Luciani had been mentioned as being among the late
Pope Paul's possible successors, he was believed to have been originally
far down on the list of papabili. He himself joked to an American news
man before the conclave that.he was on "List C." What is obvious now
however, is that as the days dwindled down toward the election, Cardinal
Luciani emerged from inner-circle caucusing as an acceptable compromise
candidate who could be supported by nearly all ideological factions,
and by both Italian and non-Italian electors.
Cardinal Luciani chose "John Paul I" as his papal name, making him
the first pope to ever assume a double name. It is believed that he
chose the names of his two predecessors -- John XXIII and Paul VI -
both as a tribute to them as well as to indicate that he would continue
the general lines of their moderate reformist policies, avoiding any
sharp change of direction in the church.
The new pope is considered to be a moderate-conservative in his
theological outlook, having been a protege, for a time, of Cardinal
Alfredo Ottaviani, now 87, the Vatican's No. 1 conservative. There
would thus appear to be little indication of his relaxing traditional
church teachings on morality, specifically in the areas of divorce