Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pope. And in heavily Roman Catholic Las Vegas, N.M., District Judge Luis Armijo put himself on record as having no intention of being bound by the ruling of the Pontiff. "I may be a Catholic," he announced, "but I'm a citizen of the United States first...
...human mind and decided henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time: 5,463,941,278,336 to 1 against...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...
Pope Pius XII passed his 73rd birthday and his tenth year as Pontiff, hard at work, made no official observance of the occasion...