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...acquiring great wealth, the Society of Jesus was banned from Portuguese domains in 1759, from Spain and her possessions in 1767. In 1773 the Society was dissolved completely by Pope Clement XIV. Some of its members were given shelter in Russia by Catherine the Great until Pope Pius VII reinstated them anew...
...longest papal junket (more than 100 miles round trip) since Pius IX's horsecarriage tour of the Roman countryside in 1857, Pope John XXIII, 79, climbed into the armchair seat of his Chrysler, donated by U.S. Catholics, at 6:15 a.m. one morning last week. The purpose of the trip: a sentimental journey to the seminary at Roccantica where 56 years ago he said the second mass of his career. After admiring the olive-groved Sabine Hills through the plexiglas top of his speeding (frequently at more than 60 miles per hour) limousine, the Pope was greeted by townspeople...
When Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, archpriest of St. Peter's and longtime friend of Pope Pius XII, died last year, he left his entire estate (more than $25,000) to his nephews. "No one criticized him for this,'' said a Vatican official; but the official spoke too soon. Last week, Italian Catholic magazines, bent on underscoring every priest's debt to his church-even in death-stirred up a ticklish controversy...
Roman Catholic ritual is growing more and more diplomatic. The late Pope Pius XII changed the translation of Latin liturgy for Good Friday from "Let us pray for the perfidious Jews [Oremus pro perfidis Judaeis]" to "Let us pray for the unbelieving Jews" (the sense perfidis once had). The present Pope dropped the qualifying word entirely. Last week the Vatican announced that at Pope John's direction the term perfidy will also be eliminated from the ritual used in baptizing adults from Judaism and other non-Catholic faiths...
...Pope Pius XII on the subject: "Morals evidently condemn mercy killing, that is, the intention to cause death. But if a dying person consents, it is permissible to use with moderation narcotics that will allay his suffering but will also cause quicker death . . . In this case, death is not the direct intention...