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Some bishops were unhappy with Paul's criticisms of their pet theological theses. While the Pontiff conceded that "human liberation has been rightly emphasized," for example, he cautioned that "the totality of salvation is not to be confused with one or another aspect of liberation. The Good News must preserve all of its own originality: that of a God who saves us from sin and death and brings us to divine life. Hence human advancement [and] social progress [are] not to be excessively emphasized on the temporal level to the detriment of the announcement of the Good News...
...moment, one of Pope Paul Vl's usually sedate audiences became a papal powwow. Among a group of 250 Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored...
...Pope Paul VI grievously ill? That recurrent question began circulating again in Rome after a visiting diplomat came away from a meeting with the Pope, worrying that his "sunken eyes presaged death within weeks." However, another recent visitor described the Pontiff, who turns 77 on Sept. 26, as "energetic and in full command." That assessment seemed to be bolstered by the Pope's appearance at last month's feast of the Assumption; he surefootedly negotiated the cobblestone streets near his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo to say Mass at a parish church. Rumors about Paul's health...
...there was some predictable confusion. Although the trial was supposed to be public, most of the reporters who were able to find the obscure tribunal behind St. Peter's Basilica were turned away before the clerk could cry, "In the name of the Holy Spirit and the reigning Pontiff Paul VI!" When defense lawyers protested that their clients' rights had been violated because they had been interrogated without counsel, the court's three majestically robed and tasseled judges first denied the motions, saying no harm had been intended. Then they reconsidered and dismissed six of eight robbery...
Some of those present were sufficiently aware as to understand that they were witnessing the birth of a new era. Now the Supreme Pontiff could ascend to Heaven in body and soul, his mission on earth fulfilled, and the President of the Republic could sit down and govern according to his good judgment, and the queens of all the things that have been or ever will be could marry and be happy and give birth to many sons and the common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because...