Paul VI
Schroth, Raymond A.
stant anxieties, but these are the heritage says, is to "teach our young people the of all God's spiritual creatures ... created importance of this inner struggle." for the unending, the...
...As the chaplain of the anti-Fascist piety, and sickness, was sheltered from I do...
...11 1 have ever read...
...who allowed (with some perceived himself'- as a victim, a prison- which inhibited ovulation...
...Then, from 1958 to 1963, Pope John XXIII-we remember the old photo of Raymond A. Schroth Roncalli with a cigarette in one hand and a martini in the other-reshuffled the Vatican deck and summoned Vatican Il, 0ne of my earliest child- with only a fuzzy idea of what it should hood memories is of hear- do...
...theologians, and novelists like Maritain, massive, well-documented, sympathetic 253 JEFFERSON AVF...
...when Pope John, at the request of Cardinal not hear well the August heat...
...24: 21 May 1993 Commonweal...
...Paul agin Bombay and to cry " Jarnais plus la notes imploring God for the humblest onized for two years, and, without wide guerre" at the United Nations...
...and who, document...
...I remember, but Hebblethwaite Minnesota...
...tions what a president was and should be, Some, like Cameron, consider Paul VI Eugenio Pacelli-mysterious, skinny, aus- a great man...
...of the most absolute authority on earth, tion was a more technical question about who promised theologians real intellec- he was still perceived-because he so the medical and moral effects of "the pill" tual freedom...
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...It is everything that of us who read the religion pages of Time which he and Congar were indispensable other religious biographies in the 1950s, the future of the church hung to the world in which they were willing are not: a graceful work on which of Pacelli's protege monsi- to be forgotten...
...macy," if not calculated ambition-moved Once in Rome a friend showed me the REVIEWERS him toward the papacy...
...WOODWARI) i.s a senior uv'it- without a red hat because a curia rival mis- out the last emotional juices of his life er at Newsweek...
...ket by Cardinal Francis Spellman: and was the "last twist in his crown of thorns...
...with his small, thin frame, his balding, tiltThere's a story, told to me by Toronto ed head, and big weepy eyes, his lamenUniversity philosopher James M. Camer- tations over the "betrayals" of departing ISBN 0-8028-3714-X on, of Pope Paul VI and the great Domin- priests, but most of all as the promulga- Cloth, $29.99 ican theologian Yves Congar...
...leave me, the page editor of'the Chicago Tribune...
...But how do you write the life of and North Vietnam together in Paris...
...of scholarship in depth...
...Even his two "set- spot where in 1978 the Red Brigade had backs" -he was fired from his student left the bullet-ridden corpse of the leader ELIZABETH BEVERLY is a writer and chaplaincy because rivals saw him as too of the Christian Democratic Party, Aldo ethnograplrer who teaches at Lewis and Clark liberal, and...
...ROBERT L. SPAFTII is profissor ofliberal studies and directoro/'the Christian Humanism declaring Mary "Mother of the Church" Three months later his own heart colProject at Saint John's University, Collegeville, against the advice of theologians...
...For those suffer-lead the church from the world in context...
...Montini was an intellectual Newsome's work is a model tere, autocratic, churning out decrees and who saw so many sides of a complex of historical biography, instant elocutions on everything from eu- issue that he appeared to be a "Hamlet," thanasia to the art of the Harlem Globe- but one who might, because of his intel- a moving portrayal of trotters, and reportedly blessed with ligence, sensitivity, and profound spir- individual human lives heavenly visions on his deathbed-de- ituality-including his willingness to in the widest possible termined our image of a pope...
...After recalling Giovanni Battista ing the radio report of the Montini from his "exile" as archbishop of white smoke over the Milan, Pope John obligingly died, so that Vatican announcing the Montini could assume the role for which 1939 election of Pope Pius XII...
...Yet Paul remains asked, in mock shock, "But does Paul VI Untrained as a moral theologian, the an enigma...
...I remembered College in Portland, Oregon...
...lapsed...
...He knows," pope's most formative experience of Here is an odd portrait of a "modern" Helder replied...
...At your bookstore, we both die...
...The proceedings of When Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci commission concluded that the church's Vatican II are well documented, and jour- interviewed Brazil's Dom Helder Camara ban on artificial contraception was untennalist2-historian Hebblethwaite has good in 1970 about his Marxist ideas, she able...
...and in later years spoke overwhelmed visitors with his warmth and demnation of contraception into Gaudannually but guardedly with philosopher- friends with his love...
...As Frank- it seems every moment of his life had been lin D. Roosevelt defined in our imagina- a preparation...
...The Moro tragedy English ail Princeton University...
...observed, Paul's greatest weakness was that thology of twentieth-century Italian writDON W YC LIPP, ft)rnte rl v a member of the he imagined there could he a diplomatic ing, Paul cried out from his own death bed, New York Ti nies editorial board, is editorial solution to every problem...
...This evokes the time, on Peter Hebblethwaite, the British, former- or call 800-253-7521 the eve of and during the Vatican Council, Jesuit, Rome correspondent for National FAX 616-459-6540 when the best of Christendom was em- Catholic Reporter and the London Tablet, bodied in the work of French philosophers, tries to reconcile these images...
...Rome, shipped off to be bishop of ?Milan that the eighty-year-old Paul VI had poured KENNEI'll I...
...iu n et sees, and again in 1966, when the friend Jean Guitton...
...Suenens, established the Birth Control a pope when, as the office has evolved, the who, although he closed the door on Commission to balance off the draft text real life of a pope is more secret that that women priests, tried toward the end to ed- of a very conservative proposed council of the queen of England...
...and it heated up in 1965 when priest, Battista, as he was called, wrote in spite of his apparently cold demeanor, Paul VI's agents tried to insert a conmany letters home...
...As a young ucate himself on women's issues...
...lie has certain people around him, Federation of Italian Catholic University the experiences-like war, student life, ro- poor man...
...SKI] deLubac, Danielou, and Mauriac...
...Fatima, giving his jeweled tiara "to the again he had misjudged-overestimatROBERT WORTH is a graduate student in poor," only to have it sold on the open mar- ed-the human heart...
...any time...
...There was always some- knew the love a mentor has for the young...
...married couples when, because they could who broke out of the Vatican to visit or- As a young priest rising through the bu- not at that time accept a pregnancy, they phanages rather than maharajah's palaces reaucracy, he wrote himself pious prayer- were not allowed to make love...
...after thirty-four years in Moro in the trunk of a car...
...know you say these things...
...whose posts...
...But this is also thing about Montini-who, because he was Forty years before, he had written an elothe pope who guided Vatican II to corn- a sickly child, never expected a long life- quent letter on marriage to his brother pletion---finally, in the fourth session, that evoked pity...
...ferred to it as his crucifixion...
...In some ways possessed Ludovico: but the question of contracepcalling for the vote on religious liberty...
...for the unending, the everlasting ventures Moses, Gerald Early, and all the conand anxieties of their spirits in the deep "'It is, simply, one o f tributors-even the weakest ones-have things of God...
...access to Roman gossip...
...His eventually moved him higher...
...character of a generation...
...French biography Hebblethwaite strives to give us spirituality, liturgy, and bold experiments Montini whole: the man, his church, and Commonweal 21 May 1993: 23 his times...
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...who, following John had made him but Could turn oil him at the effect on the mutual love of Catholic XXIII's initiative, fostered ecumenism...
...In this 328, WM...
...It's just that he can't speak the way ship...
...when he accepted the papacy lie re- consultation, published the document 1968 secret diplomacy brought the U.S...
...between great visionary moves, like his trip interpreter of the voices of so many of our RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S J., is a pro1i s- to Jerusalem, and weird gestures-like his fellow citizens, the hope that in your hearts sor o(jounna/isin at Lovola Universiti, in Ness' pilgrimage to the questionable shrine at feelings of humanity will triumph...
...of his kidnapped friend...
...Yet all his which- tragically-will always be linked life his manner-his caution, his ''diplo- with his name...
...They were tor of Humanae vitae, the encyclical which having dinner together and Paul asked proved that the supreme teacher could Congar, "What's going to happen when not listen to the church he would teach...
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...Students (FUCI) from 1929 to 1933, he mantic love, and work--that forge the Poor man...
...MARK NOLL ENIGMA ON THE TIBER PAUL VI like the worker-priests sought to bridge the The First Modern Pope gap between the faith and the secular Peter Hebblethwaite world...
...S. F. ! C.kAKr1 FLAP] DS, MtCH...
...gnors-"conservative" Tardini or "liber- Others remember Paul VI through the -JOSEF ALTHOLZ al" Montini-was close to the throne, and image of the ultimate ineffectual cleric, in Worship the papal succession...
...Once Orleans...
...The process which led to the publica- does not record, Paul's final humiliation: DAVID MCC'ABE is a graduate student in po- tion of Humanae vitae had begun in 1963 his corpse was poorly embalmed and did litical philosophvatNorthwestern University...
...takenly saw him as pro-worker-priests- -- pleading publicly and privately for the life GERALD O'COLLINS is a professor of tlreo/ogv at the Gregorian University in Rome...
...And, more imfoot-dragging) the principle of collegial- er of a curia, cardinals, a subculture, that portant, it was a debate about what was ity to take hold...
...So he swung "On my knees, I beg you...
...In a letter which next hook is Retrieving Fundamental "Theology But as Cardinal Leon-Joseph Suenens Hebblethwaite says belongs in any an(Paulist Press...
...And he doesn't disap- human love was a teen-age male friendman who, from childhood, by wealth, prove...
...stant anxieties, but these are the heritage says, is to "teach our young people the of all God's spiritual creatures...
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