The news that Pope Francis has changed the procedure for the reception and imposition of the pallium probably struck most Catholics as a relatively insignificant alteration in a ceremony restricted to very high members of the hierarchy, archbishops with metropolitan provinces—and therefore vir
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Massimo Franco a distinguished columnist for the Corriere della Sera of Milan presents an interesting thesis in this book which he states in the introduction ldquo In probing the relationship between these two extremities of Western civilization mdash the United States at one end and the papacy
