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...Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini (now Pope Paul VI) put touring lay brothers on Lambrettas, gaining for them the name "Flying Friars...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...
However conservative he may be in matters of traditional doctrine and discipline, Pope Paul VI has always had a warm predilection for social activism. As Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan, he initiated a range of programs for the workers and poor of that problem-plagued archdiocese. In his travels as Pope, he has repeatedly made a point of seeking out the sick and impoverished. His remarkable 1967 social encyclical, Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples), called on nations to engage in a worldwide program of aggressive social action. Now comes an apostolic letter* in which the Pope addresses...
Jesus passed it on to him. "If the next Pope does not call himself Clement XV," the vision advised him, "you will know that he is a false Pope." When Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini chose to reign as Paul VI, Abbé Collin became Clement...
Soon after Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini became Pope Paul VI in 1963, he made it clear that he was going to be a traveling Pope-"an apostle on the move." In the seven years since, he has made good that promise by traveling farther and more often than all his predecessors combined: eight trips totaling 41,000 miles. His ninth trip, which began last week-a punishing, 28,000-mile, ten-day pilgrimage taking him as far as Australia and Samoa-was the longest thus far and, as it turned out, the most dangerous. In Manila, Paul VI came closer...