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...Pope Pius XII extended the privilege to radio listeners, and later to TV audiences. Bishops around the world have long been permitted to impart the blessing to their local flocks on behalf of the Pope. Last week the Vatican announced that Catholics are now eligible to receive this indulgence from their bishop's blessing via radio or TV if they are unable to hear it in person...
...Pope's lectures reaffirm a centuries-old Catholic belief, formalized in Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii and Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Pauline document, which created a furor, declared that "every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life." The reason: "In the plan of God" there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive meaning and procreative meaning" of the marital act. John Paul, when he was Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote an enthusiastic preface to the Polish edition of Humanae Vitae and was among the bishops who most vigorously...
...whenever artificial birth control is used. That idea appeared hi a book that he wrote in 1960, when he was a bishop, but is new to papal teaching. John Paul also stresses that acceptable natural methods of birth control can be an "abuse" if practiced for "unworthy reasons." Pope Pius XII, in a 1951 speech, said that Catholic couples could use the natural, or rhythm, method for serious "medical, eugenic, economic and social" reasons. John Paul shows little enthusiasm for promoting even these methods...
...Pope may seem farfetched today, legend has it that at least one Pope-Alexander VI-died of poisoning, from a fatal potion that was intended for some Cardinals. That was in 1503, and the rumors have not let up yet. Veteran Vatican observers recall the stories of how Pope Pius X died of poisoning in 1914. Then there were the whispers about how poison killed Leo XIII in 1903, Pius VIII...
...command post for Mafia operations. But when they swung open the front door, the investigators were astonished. Instead of the expected depot of pistols and machine guns, they found a cache ofobjets d'art and religious mementos, including a photograph of Giancana having a private audience with Pope Pius XII. Later, when this trove was sold at auction, Giancana's daughter Antoinette told prospective bidders: "Just look at these beautiful things. They show what a warm, sensitive person my father...