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...wrote Pope Pius XI in his 1930 encyclical, Of Chaste Marriage. Roman Catholics are expressly forbidden to use contraceptives. But does the ban also apply to the "Catholic form of birth control" known as the Rhythm . Method?* Last week Servite Missionary Father Hugh Calkins, known to millions of U.S. Catholics for his columns in the weekly pamphlet Novena Notes, warned Catho-lies to be wary of it. In the current issue of Integrity Father Calkins goes to work on the "beauty-shop theologians and gabfest experts" who contend that Rhythm has the church's blessing...
...French Academy got a note of praise from Pius XII, who wrote in French and gave the language a nod of approval in passing, for "its clarity, its precision, and its sense of distinction . . . the language of diplomacy and of abstract science ... of art, literature and poetry, the language of the spirit and of the heart...
...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...
Last week, as part of the Vatican campaign to keep Italy from going Communist, Pope Pius XII addressed the Italian Congress of Economic Experts...