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...instrument or no, the air at Castel Gandolfo has refreshed 13 Popes since the time of Urban VIII, the first Pontiff to use the villa as a summer retreat from the oppressive mugginess of summertime Rome. This year Paul VI is continuing the pleasant tradition, which has been skipped by only a small number of Popes-mainly those who considered themselves "prisoners of the Vatican" after the unification of Italy in 1870. When the Italian government recognized the Castel Gandolfo estate as an extraterritorial part of an independent Vatican in 1929, Pope Pius XI promptly refurbished the place, noting ruefully...
...While affirming their belief "in the liberating message of the Gospel," the laymen noted that they were "black first and then Catholic." Fourteen demands were then adopted unanimously and delivered to the Washington residence of Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, the Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., for transmission to Pope Paul VI. Among them...
...defined ex cathedra the dogma of the bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. Still, the doctrine of infallibility continues to trouble many Catholics. Among other things, its mere presence lends greater authority to other papal pronouncements not usually defined as infallible, such as Pope Paul VI's controversial encyclical Humanae vitae, which reaffirmed strictures against artificial birth control...
Lighter Side. Literary lunacies abound. Under "Shakespeare and the Computers" is a revelation from an Enfield College of Technology scholar who used a computer to crack the cipher of the sonnets. Solution: Shakespeare was really Edward VI, who, contrary to popular belief, died at 125 instead of 16 after writing all of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Don Quixote...
...Many a non-Catholic who wants to marry a Catholic has found himself faced with two difficult demands: that he must promise to raise any children as Catholics, and that the marriage must take place before a Catholic priest. Last week, in a 2,400-word instruction, Pope Paul VI removed the promise requirement entirely for the non-Catholic partner and ruled that local bishops may henceforth grant dispensations from a Catholic ceremony...