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...used to reflect papal thinking. In Rome, one theology professor fumed, "Concetti is no moral theologian, and what he wrote is stupid." Said Father Sean O'Riordan, a moral theologian at Rome's Alphonsianum College: "Concetti's article is clearly contrary to the teachings of Pope Pius XII and the unanimous moral tradition existing for centuries...
...farmer's son, Mindszenty had always been stubborn, and Pope Pius XII may have been relying on that quality in 1945 when he made Mindszenty the highest-ranking bishop in a nation on the brink of a Communist takeover. Weeks later, Mindszenty and his bishops issued a pre-election pastoral letter urging Christians to vote against parties that used "violence and oppression." The Communists drew a dismal 17% of the vote, and when he persisted in opposition while they consolidated their power, the cardinal's fate was certain...
...solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger was a debunker of occult phenomena who modestly assessed his own skills: "Any three-year-old could do it -with 30 years' practice...
...Euthanasia Council, Van Dusen in 1967 proposed that the time might come when persons could decide to have their lives ended in cases of "total mental and spiritual disability." But he supported explicitly only the right to die without being kept alive by heroic measures-a view that Pope Pius XII held. This is called "passive" euthanasia, which in law and morality is treated totally differently from active euthanasia, or "mercy killing...
Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...