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...doctor. She also mentioned her own time-tested therapy, "even better than that of the doctor": repeatedly emptying the lungs by exhaling in long drawn-out breaths. Last week, good Presbyterian Goodman got a letter from the Vatican's Secretariat of State. The note from Rome expressed the Pontiff's "appreciation and gratitude for your thoughtful message" and added that "His Holiness gladly invoked upon the sender abundant Heavenly favors and blessings...
...Pontiff had taken no breakfast when, at 8 a.m., he stepped into a little, white-walled room in his Vatican apartment. Flanking an X-ray table set up for the occasion were four doctors. As the ailing Pope raised his hand in blessing, all knelt for a short prayer. Then, at last, the doctors were able to begin a task that should have been done months, if not years ago: a thorough X-ray of their patient's intestinal tract. (Many times during his recurrent illness the Pope could not have stood the process, but some Vaticaners feel that...
...tired, 78-year-old Pontiff was in his study working on a speech when he felt the first attack of pain. It began in his lower abdomen and rapidly became more and more intense. The old man lifted the phone...
...they reasoned, his last and best defense against death is gone. But next day good news came down from the small, white bedchamber-the Pope was feeling better, the X rays showed nothing alarming. The tentative diagnosis: a "gastric or ulcerous condition [caused by] high gastric acidity." The Pontiff still insisted that the doctors' bulletins be brought to him for his personal editing...
Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Pius' most trusted collaborator, who throughout the Pope's illness has been doing more and more of the Pontiff's work, was appointed to the vital Archbishopric of Milan, succeeding the late Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster. At the same time, cardinals and bishops received new, sharp instructions designed to remedy what the Pope regards as creeping weaknesses in the church. Among the Pope's chief complaints...