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Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10, and one additional meeting at hours to be arranged. 3158 (XII...
DIED. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 88, chief of the Vatican's Holy Office under Pius XII and John XXIII and self-described 'policeman" of the Roman Catholic faith; if bronchial pneumonia; in Vatican City (see RELIGION...
...Roman Catholic Church "turned its back on the fate of the Jews" during the Holocaust [July 9]. The Jewish scholar Pinchas E. Lapide investigated the Pope's and Catholics' activities on behalf of the Jews, and in Three Popes and the Jews he estimates that Pius XII and countless priests, nuns and lay Catholics saved the lives of between 700,000 and 850,000 of their Jewish brethren from rampaging Nazis sometimes at the cost of their own lives...
Underlying the rhetoric lay an important shift in Vatican policy that the new Pope has introduced. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI inaugurated Vatican Ostpolitik in contrast to the policies of Pius XII, the coldest of cold warriors, who even found Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the venerable Primate of Poland, too soft on Communism. Their theory was that concessions for the Polish church could best be won by high-level negotiations between the Vatican and Warsaw. Now, just as he had done when he was a Polish bishop himself, John Paul was announcing that the Polish church leaders ought...
...first 14 days of development after fertilization, the time when implantation into the womb is completed in a normal pregnancy. For many Roman Catholics, and others, the embryo deserves respect as a new human life from the time of fertilization. Catholicism has also opposed IVF because of Pope Pius XII's arguments against all unnatural methods of conception...