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...content with thrillers and bestsellers, which are often of doubtful moral, human and literary value," Pope Paul VI counseled some visitors during his working vacation at Castel Gandolfo. The summer reader should also avoid "those disgraceful magazines, which are now invading and infecting every place." Instead, concluded the Pope, "you should feed your spirit on clean and high thoughts...
What the discontents had to deal with was the fact that Gijsen was chosen -if not imposed-by Pope Paul VI himself. The Pope personally selected Gijsen over a list of candidates proffered by the diocesan chapter to fill the seat of retired Bishop P.J.A. Moors, 65, a moderate who had carefully mediated between conservative and progressive factions in his diocese. The Pope was known to feel that conservatives were not adequately represented in the predominantly liberal Dutch hierarchy, and Conservative Gijsen was his choice to redress the situation. The Pontiff emphasized his point by consecrating Gijsen in Rome...
Other documents released by the Foreign Office last week indicate that British officials said nothing about the atrocity to the Russians for fear of disrupting Allied unity. As O'Malley sadly put it, in a message seen only by Winston Churchill's Cabinet and King George VI: "We have, in fact, perforce used the good name of England to cover up the massacre...
...Rome, 2,000 happy hairdressers gathered for an audience with Pope Paul VI heard kind words for their profession and their patron saint, the 17th century Peruvian mulatto St. Martin de Porres, who had once been apprenticed to a barber. St. Martin, said the Pope, was "an example to imitate, an encouragement to bring to your profession willingness and helpfulness." Hairdressing, concluded the Pope, offers "abundant opportunities to help many people recognize the goodness...
...gift had been one of reconciliation. It was Athenagoras who first sent out feelers to the Vatican to end the 900-year-old battle between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy.*The gesture culminated in the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Athenagoras in 1964 on Jerusalem's sacred Mount of Olives, where the two men exchanged a kiss of peace and prayed together. The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054. In 1967 they capped...