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...church is confronting one of the greatest crises in its history. At the time of Pope Pius' election in 1939 there was little if any dissension within the church, and thus it was able to speak as a united voice against war. Today, unfortunately, that is no longer the case, and papal' authority is being challenged in many quarters. Pope John Paul's task, therefore, lies in binding the church together again, steering between traditionalists and progressives-and that certainly requires as firm a hand as that of Pope Pius...
...rigid Pius XII in his approach to the new scientific issues of the age. When the first test-tube baby was born and some Catholic theologians condemned the experiment, Luciani said in an interview, "I extend the warmest wishes to the English girl. As for the parents, I have no right to condemn them. Subjectively, if they acted in good faith and with good intentions, they could even gain great merit before...
...want a pastoral figure, and they selected a man with no experience in the Vatican bureaucracy or diplomatic service. John Paul is a quietly genial man whose priests find him approachable. He is also the third Patriarch of Venice to become Pope in this century. The first was Pius X.* The second was John XXIII, a beloved figure of reform...
...favorite saint, Ryan says, is Venice's Pope St. Pius X, whom Luciani has often cited in his sermons. (Pius X is often remembered as the Pope who condemned Modernism, but that act was largely the work of his eminence grise Cardinal Merry del Val; Luciani, though, has revered Pius as the man who encouraged frequent reception of Communion and attendance at Mass.) The Venetian connection...
...heart attack; in Rome, where he had gone to participate in the Vatican conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul VI. After the Chinese Catholic Church was shattered in 1949 by the Communists, the towering Yu Pin (6 ft. 3 in.) was ordered by Pope Pius XII to abandon his diocese of Nanking for the U.S., and was condemned to death in absentia by the Communists...