Word: popes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Explaining their attitude, Southerners expressed fears of a Catholic spoils system, with "Catholics getting all the jobs." Other reasons were vague ("I just don't understand Catholics") or fantastic ("I wouldn't want the Pope running the country...
Close to 1,000,000 Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world's oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for guidance by Coptic leaders in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Libya was chosen, according to ancient custom, by lot. In Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark, a seven-year-old boy approached an envelope lying on the altar. Amid prayers, he opened the envelope and drew from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate...
...books from all over the world. They confer regularly with 24 consultants, and if a book is found to be contrary to Catholic faith and morals, nine cardinals review their findings. Together, the three groups form the Holy Office's book-censoring department, and on their recommendation the Pope places works on the Index of Forbidden Books. So far, John XXIII has not Indexed any; Pius XII placed 23 authors on the list, including Jean Paul Sartre, Andre Gide and Alberto Moravia...
Started by Pope St. Gelasius in the 5th century, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
...first U.S.-born staff member of the State Secretariate, Spellman translated and delivered in English the first papal radio broadcast, stayed for seven years, part of that time as attache to the Vatican's secretary of state and his close friend, Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius...