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...most surprising phenomena of the year had been the formidable strength and staying power of the frail-looking, 74-year-old Pontiff himself. No Pope had been seen by so many in a similar length of time; thousands were received in special or private audiences, 2,830,000 crowded into St. Peter's for general audiences, sometimes more than 40,000 at a time. During the year, 42,000 pilgrims took part in 34 international congresses held in Rome, and 203,558 visited special exhibitions of missionary...
Born Joseph Sarto, a poor man's son, Pope Pius X reigned as pontiff for eleven years, died in 1914. He was the hero of countless warmly human stories. One told how he got to Rome to be elected Pope. Having given away all his money to the poor of Venice, he applied to the Catholic banks for a travel loan, but was turned down as a poor risk. Finally a Jewish admirer lent him the money for the journey, but Cardinal-Patriarch Sarto was so certain he would not be elected Pope that he bought a round-trip...
Bishops should also "scrupulously take precautions and firmly insist that, in the history of the Reformation, the faults and foibles of Catholics be not overemphasized while the defects of the reformers are dissimulated . . . Nothing embraced in Catholic truth concerning the nature and means of justification . . . the Roman pontiff's primacy of jurisdiction, and the fact that real reunion can only be effected by the dissidents' return to the one true church, may be passed over in silence or told ambiguously...
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...
...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...