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DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live telecast of an Easter Vigil service, an ancient Catholic tradition revived in 1951 by Pius XII, now celebrated for the first time in English, from the Church of St. Gregory the Great in Baltimore...
...Pope Pius VII crowned Napoleon Emperor; last night another Italian (well, almost) did somewhat the same for the President of Harvard...
...Like Pius VII, Vellucci would not curb his criticism of the Empire. He charged that the University is discriminating against its own students...
What the Pope said to the world is not in itself radical or revolution ary; many of the ideas put forward by John had been articulated by his predecessor Pius XII. What gave these ideas freshness and new life is the warm, open Johannine spirit-the willingness to reach beyond the frontiers of Catholic doctrine and bring the church into dialogue with the modern world. Perhaps more important, they were ideas whose time had come round at last. The encyclical appeared in a season of relaxing world tensions and at the moment in history when the Christian churches had entered...
...years later was raised to a 30% maximum. A rider to the original law that would have exempted the Vatican was specifically struck down. Nevertheless, the Vatican refused to pay the taxes-which might run upwards of $15 million a year-citing the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini. At that time, Italy agreed to pay the Pope $39 million in cash and $52 million in 5% government bonds as indemnity for losses suffered by the Pope when the Papal States were incorporated into Italy in 1870. Under Pius XII, Vatican money was shrewdly invested...