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When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his aide and preferred successor, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, was ineligible for the papacy because he was not a Cardinal. As a stopgap, the Cardinal-electors turned to the apparently innocuous Angelo Giuseppi Roncalli, 76. Roncalli, of course, became Pope John XXIII, whose Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn...
...Excommunicated by whom?" scoffed Lefebvre at his press conference, as his seminarians gazed on admiringly. "By modernists, by people who should themselves be publicly excommunicated. It has no value." The bishops-to-be are two administrators of Lefebvre's Priestly Society of St. Pius X, the French Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and the Swiss Bernard Fellay; Richard Williamson, the head of Lefebvre's U.S. branch and a convert from Anglicanism; and Argentina's Alfonso de Galarreta. Both Fellay and Galarreta are also under the canonical age requirement of 35 for bishops...
...most common of the techniques prohibited. The Instruction not only opposes the introduction into a womb of sperm from a "third party" donor other than the husband but rejects the use of a husband's sperm. The first condemnation of artificial insemination came in a 1949 speech by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching has been ignored by many Catholic couples and disputed by some theologians...
Dominican Theologian Kevin O'Rourke, director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University, declared at the CHA conference that since the 16th century, Catholic thinkers have allowed withholding of life support in some cases. O'Rourke and others cite a 1957 speech in which Pope Pius XII said , that life-sustaining methods are morally required only when they "do not involve any grave burdens for oneself or another...
...lived 15 years at home with her father, nine more in the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux, France. She worked no eye-catching miracles, made no famous converts, succumbed to tuberculosis like many others of her time. Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books...