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...tried to win at the polls in the 1948 election. The Communists polled 30% of the popular vote, and were turned back by the strong leadership of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great Christian Democratic Premier, who was backed by the forceful anti-Communist intervention of Pope Pius...
...titular Bishop of Sygdea in Crimea,* Roberts goes at a fast clip lecturing, traveling, writing, and battling for causes unpopular with most members of the church hierarchy. He likes to recall that in 1950 he advised Pope Pius XII against defining the dogma of Mary's assumption. He plugs away for a bigger voice for the laity in church affairs: "I would hope to see the apostolic tradition restored to where the laity had a voice, especially in matters concerning marriage, to advise a body entirely celibate...
...Sign of Colonialism. Christianity in North Africa goes back to the 2nd century; great councils of bishops were held in Carthage. In the 7th century, Moorish swordsmen swept unchecked across North Africa, and thriving Christian communities were gradually converted to the law of Mohammed. Pope Pius IX restored the Tunisian hierarchy following the French occupation in 1881, and after World War II the country's Catholic population reached a peak of 300,000, nearly all of them Europeans. Thanks to post-independence emigration, there are 45,000 Catholics left; the empty churches stand as a sign...
...Louis, served a parish in Teaneck, N.J., for seven years. In 1954, Beck and his wife became Catholics. Convinced that he had a vocation to the priesthood, Beck went to Germany and in 1956 received permission to enter the seminary at Mainz. But before he could be ordained, Pope Pius XII told Beck in a 1957 interview, he would have to find a bishop who would promise to support him. Bishop Mark Carroll of Wichita, Kans., stepped in with an offer shortly before Pius died, but Pope John subsequently decided that there would be too much danger of scandal...
Until the study of the pill by Vatican theologians is completed-and Paul gave no indication whether it would be resolved by the time the Vatican Council reconvenes in September-Catholics were still bound to obey Pope Pius XII, who declared that the pill was a form of sterilization, and therefore an illicit means of birth control...