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Romans were happily telling each other this incident as a sign that Pope Pius XII was better. The outlook was still chancy for a badly weakened man of 78, but by week's end the improvement was dramatic. No one was sure yet what had been wrong with him, but a measure of credit for the Pope's recovery was being given to Dr. Gasbarrini, 72, gastrointestinal specialist, who washed out the Pope's highly acid stomach with an alkaline solution, and discontinued the offbeat treatments of Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans (who injects animal cells into humans...
...Manhattan, held parishes in Albany, N.Y., and Pasadena, Calif., and is considered by many to be the outstanding U.S. clergyman under 50, an expert in both theology and diplomacy. President Blake broke into one of the Boston sessions to announce "the illness, the serious illness of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII," and the delegates stood for one minute bowed in prayer to express their "sympathy for their Roman Catholic friends...
...Pope was still gravely ill, and the long, anxious watch went on-a watch in which millions of people in other faiths joined. Roman Catholics all over the world prayed: "O God graciously look upon Thy servant Pius . . . that he may profit his subjects both by word and example and, together with the flock committed to his care, attain to eternal life...
...seems that the more Pope Pius XII pleads and prays to Mary, the stronger Communism in Italy gets. Doesn't it seem logical to believe the Roman Catholic Church is made up of fallible men capable of making serious blunders and teaching errors...
...Brethren.) The order "creates a terrifying precedent," complained the archdiocese's official Catholic Review. "An invitation to practice fraud and deceit," charged an anonymous group of Catholic lawyers. Theologian Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America denounced the order as "totalitarian, un-American and irreligious." Citing Pius XI ("Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects . . . where no crime has taken place"), Connell argued that the judge's decision was "opposed to the principle that God is the supreme and direct Lord of every human being . . . What civilized person would recommend that...