Pope Paul VI gave audience to American TV crews to give this address in response to the news that John F Keenedy had been shot and killed,
“We are deeply bereaved by the tragic and sad news of the assassination of the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. and the grave wounding of Governor Connally, and we are profoundly saddened for such a shameful crime which, through the person of its chief, has struck a great civil nation, and for the sorrow which it inflicts upon Mrs. Kennedy, their children and their family.”
The Pope continued to add that he’d say Mass for the repose of his should the next day.
"Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi said he hopes to see the late pontiff raised to the altars soon," reports CNA/EWTN News. Supporters of our prayerful petition to our bishops supporting Humanae Vitae can pray to Pope Paul VI, and resonate his plea to his brother bishops -- "We invite all of you,…
In 1965, then Jesuit Scholastic Jorge Maria Bergoglio, S.J. was teaching high school at Colegio de la Inmaculada in Argentina. No doubt he was aware of and took interest in the planned 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. Immediately before that convocation, Pope Paul VI gave a very specific…
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amen. Greatest good in this life is to be catholic +M