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Transcript: Profile: Controversy surrounding the beatification of Pope Pius IX
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- September 4, 2000
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Profile: Controversy surrounding the beatification of Pope Pius IX
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Pope John Paul has beatified two of his predecessors: the conservative
and long-serving Pius IX of the 19th century and the widely revered
John XXIII of the mid-20th century. Sylvia Poggioli reports from
Rome that the two popes left contrasting legacies.
SYLVIA POGGIOLI reporting:
John Paul brushed aside vocal protests in Italy and beyond against
putting Pius IX on the path to sainthood. He was the last pope king
who lost the church's temporal power when Italy was unified in 1870.
Pius introduced the dogma of papal ...