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...internal reform planned by the bishops at the First Vatican Council of 1869-1870. Last week Pope John XXIII announced that he hopes, during the course of the Council, to proclaim the beatification of the Pope who presided over that last council: Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who as Pius IX ruled longer (1846-1878) than any Pope in history. If he is later canonized, a process that might take decades, he will be called St. Pius IX...
...Nono" was a strong-willed prelate whom many will have difficulty visualizing as a saint on the same ecclesiastical calendar with Francis of Assisi or Paul of Tarsus. Elected to the chair of St. Peter in 1846. Pius IX started out as one of the most liberal-minded Popes in centuries. He granted amnesty to political prisoners jailed during the reign of his predecessor, tried to clean up the corrupt, sluggish government of the Papal States. To the surprise of Europe's statesmen, he even seemed sympathetic to the ideals of Italian nationalism, and for a while worked actively...
...with Austria, assassinated his Prime Minister and set up a "people's republic." Pius fled to exile in Gaeta, near Naples. There he denned, on his own authority, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. When French troops restored him to his dominions in 1850, Pius IX was a cautious political conservative. Much of his suspicion of modern ideas is summed up in the notorious Syllabus of Errors of 1864-a belligerent denunciation of such philosophies as rationalism and liberalism that anti-Catholics still find useful as a weapon against the church...
...June 2 III MWF at 10 Fri., May 25 IV MWF at 11 Tu., May 29 V MWF at 12 Th., May 31 VI MWF at 1 Frl., June 1 VII MWF at 2 Wed., May 23 VIII MWF at 3 Th., May 24 IX MWF at 4 Th., May 24 X TuThs at 8 Tu., June 5 XI TuThs at 9 Sat., May 26 XII TuThs at 10 Mon., May 28 XIII TuThs at 11 Mon., June 4 XIV TuThs at 12 Wed., May 23 XV TuThs at 1 Tu., June 5 XVI TuThs at 2 Tu., June...
...sainthood to be Italian, and a nun, priest or brother. Of the "causes" on the Vatican's current list, only 100 are laity; about half are non-Italians. Thirteen of the top candidates are cardinals; five are Popes: Gregory X, Innocent V, Innocent XI, Benedict XIII and Pius IX. Of the dozen or so Americans on the list, best known are Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha (TIME, Jan. 27, 1961), colonial New York's gentle, ascetic "Lily of the Mohawks," and Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton (1774-1821), founder of the Sisters of Charity...