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Among the biblical questions still being pondered by Catholic scholars is monogenism?the belief in one set of Adam-and-Eve "original parents"?as opposed to polygenism, the theory that evolution to human form occurred in many places at roughly the same time. Pius XII's encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 cautiously left the door open regarding polygenism, pointing out that it "apparently" was not consistent with church doctrine on original sin. But Jesuit Francis McCool of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome says that "the scientific evidence for polygenism seems to have increased," and he feels that...
Before the Second Vatican Council, that meant salvation was limited to Roman Catholics, but even the anti-liberal Pope Pius IX offered hope to "invincibly ignorant" outsiders. Feeney offered damnation. Feeney retained a following at the nearby Catholic intellectual center he continued to operate after his ouster from Boston College. In 1958 he moved to Harvard, Mass., setting up a farm commune with his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
...became Archbishop of Regina, Sask.-at 35 the world's youngest archbishop. During the Depression, he sold his bishop's palace to the Franciscans to ease his diocese's heavy debts. In 1946 the soft-spoken cleric was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Pius...
...other papal duties, Pope Paul VI has always retained a fascination with world diplomacy. He spent 32 years in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, becoming in effect Foreign Minister under Pope Pius XII. One of his most cherished dreams since he stepped into the shoes of the fisherman nearly ten years ago has been to see the atrophied diplomatic muscle of the Holy See reinvigorated. He himself took the initiative with a series of historic journeys to Asia, Africa, and North and South America, becoming the most widely traveled Pope in history...
...name chosen to confuse its rickety little venture with the mighty AT&T. When Hernand died in 1933, Sosthenes became the undisputed master, "the Prince of Telephones" as he came to be known. At his New York headquarters, he worked in a Louis XIV salon with a portrait of Pius XI on the wall. Haute cuisine for 200 in the private dining room was not uncommon...