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...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 Pius XII passed his 73rd birthday and his tenth year as Pontiff, hard at work, made no official observance of the occasion...
Blood in the Streets. The immediate cause of Hajir's difficulties was the implacable opposition of top-ranking Mullah Kashani, who calls himself "pontiff and religious head of Moslems in the Middle East." As the highest Persian religious leader he was a power to be reckoned with. Kashani has hated the British ever since they sentenced him to death for resisting their move into Iraq after World War I. Now Anglophobe Kashani denounced Hajir as a "British spy." "Blood will run in the streets before we accept this man," said Kashani...
Pope Pius XII (Thurs. 12:30 a.m., ABC). The Pontiff's annual message, and a description of Christmas Eve ceremonies at the Vatican...