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Called Aeterna Dei Sapientia (The Eternal Wisdom of God), from its opening words, the new encyclical commemorates the 15th centenary of Pope St. Leo I, the strong-minded Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461 who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking the city in 452, and asserted papal supremacy and discipline over bishops of both Christian East and West. In his new appeal for Christian unity, Pope John avoids mention of Communism by name, but notes that "the Catholic Church finds herself in the same sorrowful position as in the 5th century.'' Because of the threat...
Limited to the principles, rather than the mechanics, of unity, Aeterna Dei Sapient ia forcefully reflected the Pope's own oft-expressed dream of healing the breach between Christendom's largest branches. But to many Protestants and Orthodox Christians, the encyclical seemed as much a reminder of unacceptable papal claims as a warm appeal for unity...
...killed, a road worker who was blown apart trying to unstrap a bomb from a tree along the Brenner highway. But police averted a major disaster when they discovered and defused a bomb only an hour before it was set to go off under a dam at Selva dei Molini. The dam's collapse would have flooded the entire valley...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
...Live. Some observers blame the decline in vocations to the priesthood on the rise in vocations to the so-called secular institutes-religious organizations such as Opus Dei, in which men and women may take vows of obedience (but rarely poverty or chastity) and go on living in the world. Since the late Pope Pius XII recognized their validity in 1947. secular institutes have mushroomed in Italy: from 1949 to 1958, more than 250 applied to the Vatican for formal recognition. "There is no doubt.'' said a Vatican prelate last week, "that these organizations have attracted many...