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Article: Paul VI: The First Modern Pope.
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- Commonweal
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- May 21, 1993
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One of my earliest childhood memories is of hearing the radio report of the white smoke over the Vatican announcing the 1939 election of Pope Pius XII. As Franklin D. Roosevelt defined in our imaginations what a president was and should be, Eugenio Pacelli - mysterious, skinny, austere, autocratic, churning out decrees and instant elocutions on everything from euthanasia to the art of the Harlem Globetrotters, and reportedly blessed with heavenly visions on his deathbed - determined our image of a pope. For those of us who read the religion pages of Time in the 1950s, the future of the church hung on which of Pacelli's protege monsignors - "conservative" Tardini or ...
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