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...excessive zeal in bringing lost and wavering souls back into the church, he urged them to "push souls gently but firmly towards Jesus." Later in the week the Pope showed his continued strength by participating in a 90-minute ceremony celebrating the 16th anniversary of his accession to the papal throne...
Most recently, in Answer to Job (just published in England, not yet in the U.S.), he suddenly tackled the 1950 papal proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin, which he considers the greatest religious event since the Reformation. His explanation of the dogma: it was, he contends, historically and psychologically necessary, because the mass of Roman Catholic women (at least unconsciously ) demanded it, to give them a symbol of identification in heaven...
...turn our editorial guns even on Catholic targets [e.g., Commonweal is strongly anti-McCarthy] when, wrongly or rightly, we felt it was the thing to do...The area of proper disagreement between Catholics is wide indeed, but we feel that the Catholic publicist simply cannot leave the papal peace program in a pious rhetorical vacuum...
...Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy (now envoy to Thailand) passes out greenbacks to eager Guatemalan soldiers. As presumably downtrodden workers load a banana boat, and the battered corpses of little children lie unnoticed underfoot, Archbishop Verolino, the papal nuncio, blesses the joyous scene...
...they found nothing more-certainly no sign of the malignancy they had feared. Then the question was what to do about the hernia. Operate soon to remove the hernia, advised the Pope's new doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox Dr. Paul Niehans (TIME, Sept. 13). So the doctors decided to continue...