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INSANE: John paul i - The Real Truth

Pope-ally wired! Why Mark E Smith’s maligned Catholic play is getting a reboot

The Fall frontman’s play about a papal plot appalled critics when first staged in 1986, with Leigh Bowery starring as a cardinal. Now Hey! Luciani is back – but does it make any more sense 40 years on?

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15 Shocking Pope Facts That May Leave You Flabbergasted Or Eager To Know More

20 telltale stories about popes and the papacy that may surprise even the most knowledgeable.

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Pope Leo XIV: Why do Pope's change their names when elected?

It is said the chosen name of a pontiff can be the ‘first indication of what the direction of the papacy might be’.

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Pope Leo XIV: What the new pope’s name choice says about his future plans

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops

The Independent UK

Doves, Deaths And Rations: Papal Elections Over Time

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan conditions and were even locked up so long that some of them died.

International Business Times

The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all forms

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Record-low Tory poll explains why there (probably) won't be a May election

Cast your mind back – if you can – to September 1978. Jim Callaghan announced he would not call an early election (which he might have won), Pope John Paul I died after 33 days of papacy and the Commodores were number one with their hit, 'Three Times A Lady".

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John Paul I, who served as pope for 33 days, moves a step closer to sainthood

The ceremony in St. Peter's Square on Sunday constituted the last formal step in the Vatican before possible sainthood for Albino Luciani, an Italian who died 33 days after he was elected pontiff.

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Pope Francis beatifies his predecessor John Paul I

Pontiff praises ‘the smiling pope’ in public ceremony in Vatican marking last formal step before canonisation

The Guardian - UK

John Paul I, briefly serving, 'smiling" pope, is beatified

Pope Francis has beatified one of his predecessors, John Paul I, a briefly serving pontiff who was distinguished for his humility and cheerfulness

The Independent UK

John Paul I, 'Smiling Pope' for a month, moves towards sainthood

Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 after only 33 days as pontiff, moved closer to sainthood on Sunday with the Vatican still having to dismiss lingering conspiracy theories that he was a victim of foul play.

Reuters

Taiwan sends special envoy to former pope's beatification

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has sent a special envoy to attend this weekend's beatification of former Pope John Paul I, saying it demonstrates the close relations between the island and the Vatican, which has been courting China.

Reuters

'Crushed' by 2 papacies, John Paul I's death eclipsed life

Pope John Paul I is widely recalled not so much for his life but for the murky circumstances of his abrupt death, 33 days after being elected pontiff in 1978, Now, admirers of the so-called "smiling pope” are using his approaching beatification to focus on the accomplishments of the pope…

The Independent UK

'Smiling Pope' John Paul I takes the next step toward sainthood -- not all pontiffs earn this distinction

On Sept. 4, 2022, Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, will be beatified: proclaimed as “blessed,” the last step before being canonized as a Catholic saint.

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