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...Lateran Cross awarded Mr. Hearst was a simple medal, not an award from Pope Pius XII. Vatican sources said that Hearst's name had been mentioned for an award, but had been turned down...
...Pope Pius is infallible when he speaks officially regarding faith or morals in matters binding on the whole church. And only then. In handing out awards and decorations he is as fallible as any other...
...Pope Pius XII was presented with a little token of esteem by 700 cheering motor scooter enthusiasts: a shiny, bright blue motor scooter...
After reading that Pope Pius had decorated [William Randolph] Hearst, for "civic qualities, comprehension of spiritual values, and devotion to humanity" [TIME, Sept. 26], I gave up on the human mind and decided henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...