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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Paul VI
DESCRIPTION:ST PAUL VI \n◊◊◊ \nHe was born with the name of Giovanni Baptista Montini in September \n26\, 1897. His father\, Giorgio was a lawyer\, politician and member of the Italian \nChamber of Deputies. The young Montini was plagued with numerous physical \nailments. He was ordained at the age of 22 on May 29\, 1920. He was then sent to \nRome where he attended the Academy which was geared to the training of \ndiplomats. He began his service of thirty years in the Vatican Secretariat of \nState. During those years he was also active as a chaplain to the Catholic \nStudents at the University of Rome. \nHe was named Undersecretary of State in 1924. He served in that office \nfor thirty years. He was named Archbishop of Milan in 1954. He rebuilt \nchurches that had been destroyed during the war and made every effort to win \nback the working class from Communist influences. Devoted to the \ndisadvantaged\, he was a frequent visitor to hospitals\, orphanages\, homes of the \naged and prisons. \nAfter Pope John XXIII was elected and announced the Second Vatican \nCouncil\, he appointed Montini to the Central Preparatory Commission. He took \na very active part in the First Session of the Council in 1962. Pope John died in \n1963 and Montini was elected as his successor. It was felt that he would \ncontinue the process of the Council. He chose the name of Paul VI and was \ndetermined that\, like Paul the Apostle\, his pontificate would spread the Gospel \nto the entire world. In his first message as Pope he set forth his agenda: to \ncontinue Vatican II\, to revise Canon Law\, to work for peace and justice at all \nlevels\, and to seek Christian Unity. \nPaul was well equipped to deal with the Council because of his long \nexperience in the Secretariat of state. He knew the Curia thoroughly. Their \nactions may not have always pleased him\, but they rarely surprised him. He was \nactively involved in the three sessions of the Council over which he presided. He \nsuggested amendments to several of the documents: ecumenism\, missionary \nactivity\, revelation\, Eastern Catholic Churches and religious liberty. \nOne issue that he held back from the Council was that of Birth Control. He \nset up a Commission of Lay people to consider the issue. However eventually he \ncame to his own conclusion and issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae which \nforbade the use of artificial contraceptives. The encyclical created a crisis in the \nChurch. Paul himself came to refer to the document as “a painful document in \nour episcopacy”. The last ten years of his pontificate were difficult for Paul VI. \nHe was more withdrawn and troubled by the negative reaction to Humanae \nVitae\, the polarity between conservatives and liberals\, the massive departure \nfrom priestly and religious life\, and the lack of vocations. The Pope told Jean \nGuiton that Archbishop Lefebvre\, who defiantly opposed the liturgical reform \nwas “the greatest cross of my pontificate”. \nDebilitating arthritis and acute cystitis weakened him in the summer of \n1978. On August 6\, 1978 he died of a heart attack at Castel Gandolfo. He was \nbeatified by Pope Benedict XVI and canonized by Pope Francis.
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