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...viewed the encyclical as an ideal to be encouraged rather than an absolute restriction to enforce in all cases. And many government and private agencies went ahead with campaigns to limit population. But Pope Paul is not so easily contradicted. Now. acting through his Secretary of State, Jean Cardinal Villot, 65, he has begun a quiet counterattack, attempting to marshal Catholic forces against all official programs, national or international, that propagate artificial contraception...
...cardinal's 15-page confidential document, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn learned in Rome, was dated Nov. 14 and sent to all papal nuncios and apostolic delegates and to the Vatican's permanent observers at the United Nations and its agencies. In it, Villot stresses the secrecy of the new lobbying effort because "the demographic problem has its very delicate aspects." He notes pointedly that after entering the controversial field "under the Kennedy presidency," the U.S. is now "at the head of the line among promoters of an international policy of birth control." He also is sharply critical...
Powerful Monarch. Lunch, even on papal vacation, is devoted to business. While light courses of pasta, meat or fish, salad and fruit are served, Paul keeps up a lively chatter with his table companions, often including Papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot, who has a permanent apartment at the summer villa. After a 1½-hour siesta, there is more work: reading (and often writing marginalia in) the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and planning or writing important documents. Like his predecessors, Paul works long hours. An hour or so for prayer in the evening, some minutes...
...recruits finally brought some limited Vatican action. When Novice Mary Kutty was hospitalized in Florence in 1969, her language teacher fought for her return to India. Puthenpura failed to respond, but the convent finally sent her back and she promptly recovered. Last February papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot ordered all recruiting to stop. In June papal nuncios in Europe were ordered to interview every Indian novice; Rome's investigation is still going...
...that Sant' Elia needed toilets and pharmacies more than papal visits. Police moved in to end the demonstration, and a fight broke out; 26 people were injured and 21 arrested before it was stopped. Some stones, newsmen insisted, hit the open car in which Paul and Jean Cardinal Villot, the Vatican Secretary of State, were riding at the close of their visit...