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This was the Assembly's last meeting. Next February it will be replaced by a new parliament with authority over the Common Market and Euratom projects too. Said Pope Pius XII to the delegates: "The Coal and Steel Community has placed Europe on a new road leading to infinite promise...
...have been occasions of high drama in the history of Vatican radio. In 1938, four hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
This week, making his longest journey north from Rome since he became Pope, Pius XII visited the new transmitting station, now Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
...Thurs., Jan. 23 VI, M 1 Wed., Jan. 22 VII, M 2 Sat., Jan. 25 VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII, T 3 Wed., Jan. 22 XVIII...
Theologian Connell started from a different point than Pope Pius XII who last month condemned smoking by members of religious orders as self-indulgence (TIME, Sept. 30). Arguing that because he is God's property, an individual has no right to endanger himself foolishly, Connell nevertheless admits that dangerous acts can sometimes be justified by the "principle of double effect" (both good and evil resulting from the same act, with the good more weighty). Scientists, he notes, have given preponderant evidence that excessive cigarette smoking greatly increases the probability of lung cancer, while moderate smoking increases the likelihood only...