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...expected to elevate more than 20 bishops this year to bring the College of Cardinals to its full complement of 120 voting members. John Paul, having already named more saints than any other Pope, plans on Sept. 3 to declare two of his predecessors blessed. The elevation of John XXIII, hero of the progressive Vatican II initiatives of the early 1960s, will raise no hackles, but that of Pius IX, an oppressor of Jews in the mid-1800s, will. (The march toward canonization of another Pius--XII--has stalled in the face of renewed charges that he stood by silently...
...Roman Catholic church can't find a politically correct Pius. Since the 1960s, it has synchronized the canonization process of liberal hero Pope John XXIII and conservative favorite Pius XII, but recently Pius' "cause" has stalled. The Vatican won't say why, but Jewish groups' critiques of the Holocaust-era Pope may have played a role...
...THEME] SUPER BOWL XXIII: Bebop Bamboozled...
...achievers list: the Top Chrome Domes of the Century. Although we would not be very comfortable flatly asserting that the following Men of the Year were bald, it would be safe to say they were balding or, better yet, follicularly challenged: Gandhi, Churchill, Eisenhower, Truman, Mossadegh, Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, Sadat, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Pope John Paul...
...Pius XII. Her parents found him "a bit sour." Growing up in Lebanon, Ky., Betty Spalding went to confession, heard Mass in Latin and wore a demure chapel veil. She prayed avidly: "I was adding it up, earning heaven." In junior high school the nuns told her that John XXIII, Pius' successor, was "opening the windows of the church, and that appealed to me." Not that she would dream of contradicting a Pontiff anyway. "If the Pope said it, that was fine with me," she recalls...