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...asking questions was often to answer them-or at least to indicate how tinny and irrelevant conventional responses of the past were now. Should the church shun the secular world, clinging to the City of God in fear of contamination from the City of Man? That learned teacher Pius XII, as his encyclicals and allocutions make clear, firmly answered no. But Pius, for all his good will, remained a prisoner of the church's past. It was left to John XXIII -neither intellectual nor theologian-to throw open the windows and doors of Catholicism to the breeze of change...
That Word Liberty. Each Pope, as he receives the triple tiara at his coronation, is reminded: "Thou art the father of princes and of kings, Pontiff of the whole world." Far more than shrewd, blunt Pius XI, or ascetic, aristocratic Pius XII, Pope John did seem like a universal father, and his teaching voice reached not only 558 million Roman Catholics but all men. Two of his encyclicals may rank as classics, and they caught the imagination of many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching...
...picture of Old Joe Kennedy and the kids with Pope Pius XII reminded Rose that "the Pope gaveTeddy his first Holy Communion. I thought with all those spiritual advantages Teddy might become a priest or even a bishop, but he met a beautiful blonde one evening, and that...
...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
Pope John XXIII, for all of his dislike for Communism, is willing to be polite about it. Gone is the defiance that Pius XII used to hurl at the Kremlin; instead Rome makes such amicable gestures as inviting Russian Orthodox observers to the Vatican Council. Last week the Pope produced in Rome a living gain from his policy of easing tensions: Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi of Lvov, freed after 18 years of Soviet confinement...