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...Paul of Tarsus. Elected to the chair of St. Peter in 1846. Pius IX started out as one of the most liberal-minded Popes in centuries. He granted amnesty to political prisoners jailed during the reign of his predecessor, tried to clean up the corrupt, sluggish government of the Papal States. To the surprise of Europe's statesmen, he even seemed sympathetic to the ideals of Italian nationalism, and for a while worked actively to unite Italy's assortment of kingdoms and principalities into a federation...
...decisions were reached: a definition of the fundamentals of faith and the dogma that the Pope, speaking for the church on faith and morals, is infallible. On October 20, 1870, the Council adjourned. King Victor Emmanuel's troops invaded Rome and forcibly incorporated the 1,116-year-old papal dominions into the new Kingdom of Italy...
Slowly but surely, the long-passive Catholic laity are beginning to rebel. As both the quality and quantity of Catholic education have improved, sons and grandsons of Catholic immigrants have begun to question the old, priest-run order. Widely read in papal encyclicals, knowledgeable about the Catholic liturgical movement, many modern laymen are openly unhappy in parishes where the spiritual life is conducted along lines that were new a century ago.*Talking about the "emerging layman" is now a favorite parlor game of Catholic intellectuals. Some clergymen-notably Monsignor John Tracy Ellis of Catholic University and Bishop George...
Doubts About Dogma. A seminary student from the age of twelve, Hegger was ordained as a priest in 1936. Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and confession. Sent to Brazil to teach philosophy, Hegger learned the tenets of Protestantism from a Methodist pastor in Rio ; in July 1948 he formally left the church...
...grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...