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...Vatican distributed the 16th volume of the speeches and radio messages of Pope Pius XII, containing 86 papal pronouncements made between March 1953 and March 1954. In the 15 years of his pontificate, the Pope has made almost 1,000 pronouncements on such varied subjects as doctrine, the social order, music, art, journalism, education, sport, agriculture, war victims, commerce, microbiology, navigation, wine, penal law, silk, tourism, psychoanalysis, neuropsychiatry, army doctors, the poor...
...Pope Pius I. 2. John Calvin...
Five banners waved in the procession that streamed across St. Peter's Square in Rome; in the giant frame that hung from the balcony of the basilica were pictures of three men, a woman and a boy. In a single ceremony last week, Pope Pius XII gave the Roman Catholic Church five new saints...
...most Holy Trinity and for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and for the increase of the Christian religion, through the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and through our own authority ... we decree and define as saint the Blessed Pius X and order his name to be written in the books of saints...
...August 1914, broken-hearted over the World War, which had just begun. This week, after a "process" lasting only 31 years, Giuseppe Sarto becomes the 4,394th known saint in the Roman Catholic calendar, the first Pope in 242 years to be canonized (the last: Pius V). It will be one of the most impressive Vatican occasions in years; though only recently recovered from serious illness, Pope Pius XII plans to officiate. Provision has been made for some 500,000 spectators in St. Peter's Square. From all over the world they have come to hear Pius...