A black limousine flying the Union Jack swept past the colonnaded grandeur of the Piazza. San Pietro and into a Vatican courtyard. Out stepped the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Escorted by the black-clad Chamberlain of Cape and Sword, the Archbishop strode by colorful Swiss Guards armed with halberds and entered the papal apartments. "Your Holiness, we are making history," said the Archbishop to Pope John XXIII. For an hour, alone except for an interpreter, the two churchmen spoke of matters temporal and spiritual.
By the wish of both, the occasion...
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