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The beatification of John Paul I is an invitation to us to rediscover the virtues of humility and to bring the three qualities of faith, hope and love into concrete expression in our lives.
(Vatican News Network) In 1994, while I was living in Rome, I had written a lot about Pope Luciani, based on some of the documents I had read about him, which testified to his public stance on birth control. The issue was discussed two years before Paul VI issued the encyclical “Life of Mankind”.
One day I was called from the Venice area by a man named Alfonso Scattolin, the producer of a local radio show for the blind, who had great respect for Pope Luciani. He told me to find a taped speech of Luciani’s speech at a conference in the spring of 1968, when he was still Bishop of Veneto. I was thrilled to hear the Pope himself. That speech was about the use of contraceptives.
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