Papa Paolo VI (1897–1978)
Author of Humanae Vitae: Of Human Life
About the Author
Image credit: Pope Paul VI meeting with Richard Nixon at the Vatican, 29 Sep. 1970. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen. From the National Archives via pingnews at Flickr.
Series
Works by Papa Paolo VI
Marialis Cultus: For the Right Ordering and Development of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary (1974) 159 copies, 3 reviews
Evangelica Testificatio: On the Renewal of the Religious Life according to the Teaching of the Second Vatican Council (1971) 60 copies, 1 review
Insegnamenti di Paolo VI. 15 copies
Indulgentiarum Doctrina: Whereby the Revision of Sacred Indulgences is Promulgated (1967) 14 copies, 1 review
Instruction on Sacramental Communion in Particular Circumstances / Immensae Caritatis (1973) — Author — 9 copies
Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem : General Norms for Restoring the Permanent Dicaconate in the Latin Church (1967) 6 copies
John XXIII; Pope Paul on his predecessor, and a documentation by the editors of Herder correspondence — Author — 5 copies
Summi Dei Verbum: On the Occasion of the Fourth Centenary of the Establishment of Seminaries by the Council of Trent (1963) 5 copies
Investigabiles Divitias Christi: On the Second Centenary of the Institution of the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1965) 4 copies
The priest 3 copies
Lumen Ecclesiae : Marking the Seventh Centenary of the Death of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1974) 3 copies
Talks of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II to the Hierarchy of the United States, Ad Limina Visits , 1978 (1979) — Author — 3 copies
El culto a la Santísima Virgen María 3 copies
Pope Paul says ... : translations of some of Pope Paul's addresses issued by the U.S. Catholic Conference 3 copies, 1 review
Ordo rituum Conclavis. Rituale romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II. Editio typica (2005) — Author — 3 copies
God's Strategy in Human History 2 copies
Sabaudiae Gemma: On the 4th Centenary of the Birth of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church (1967) 2 copies
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION POPE PAUL V1 2 copies
Man's Religious Sense 2 copies
Postrema Sessio: On the Imminent Closure of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1965) — Author — 2 copies
El culte Marià. 2 copies
Insegamenti di Paolo VI. 2 copies
Romano Pontifici Eligendo: On the Vacancy of the Apostolic See and the Election of the Roman Pontiff (1975) 2 copies
The teachings of Pope Paul VI 2 copies
El Credo del Pueblo de Dios 2 copies
Ministeria Quaedam and Ad Pascendum 2 copies
'A los mayores' — Author — 2 copies
Catholic Jewish Relations 1 copy
Discursos ao Concílio 1 copy
Pablo VI y el apostolado seglar (desde el principio de su pontifica junio de 1963 a febrero de 1964) 1 copy
Om forkynnelsen 1 copy
Los católicos en la política 1 copy
℗4: ℗De Sacerdotio: Sacerdotii nostri primordia, Sacerdotalis Caelibatus — Author — 1 copy
Trosbekjennelse 1 copy
La oración 1 copy
Presbyterorum ordinis 1 copy
Sul celibato sacerdotale 1 copy
La oración hoy 1 copy
La alegría cristiana 1 copy
Discorsi pasquali 1 copy
Pensiamo al Concilio: lettera pastorale all'Archidiocesi Ambrosiana per la Santa Quaresima del 1962 1 copy
Di fronte alla contestazione 1 copy
Address on the Roman Curia 1 copy
Il Gesu di Paolo 6. 1 copy
19: Luglio-1969-dicembre 1 copy
18: Gennaio-1969-giugno 1 copy
El sinodo de los obispos 1 copy
ENCYCLICAL 2 BOOKS 1 copy
NEW RULES FOR INDULGENCES 1 copy
Il monumento a Paolo VI 1 copy
DOSSIER LAZZATI 3 1 copy
As indulgências 1 copy
La paz, un valor sin fronteras: mensajes pontificios de paz. Paulo VI y Juan Pablo II — Author — 1 copy
O culto da virgem maria 1 copy
Epistula Ad Eminentissimum Dominum Ioannem S.R.E. Cardinalem Villot A Publicis Ecclesiae Negotiis 1 copy
Pontificalis Romani: Approving the New Rites for the Ordination of Deacons, Priests and Bishops (1968) 1 copy
On Africa 1 copy
On Saints Peter and Paul 1 copy
Message of his Holiness Pope Paul VI for the celebration of the Day of Peace, 1 January 1976: The real weapons of peace (1976) 1 copy
Gift of Fr. Brian Owens 1 copy
ON ST. FRANCIS DE SALES 1 copy
The Church. 1 copy
The pilgrimage of life 1 copy
Pope Speaks 1 copy
Pope Paul VI - Pamphlets 1 copy
On evangelization in the modern world [of] Pope Paul VI. Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nunitandi, December 8, 1975 — Author — 1 copy
The Church and the Arms Race 1 copy
Rite of Confirmation 1 copy
Pope Paul on LOVE, MARRIAGE AND THE CHURCH: Address to the International Congress of Equipes Notres Dame. (1970) 1 copy
Set Apart for Service 1 copy
On the Devepment of People 1 copy
Apostolic constitution on the General instruction on the Roman Missal: principles and rubrics (1973) 1 copy
Good News For Married Love 1 copy
God's Gift, the Holy Spirit 1 copy
Su l'educazione liturgica 1 copy
L'anno della fede 1 copy
Si prega oggi? 1 copy
ENCICLICHE E DISCORSI DI S.S. PAOLO VI — Author — 1 copy
Il cristiano e il benessere temporale: lettera pastorale all'arcidiocesi ambrosiana per la santa Quaresima del 1963 1 copy, 1 review
Attualità di S. Tommaso 1 copy
Una rara amicizia: Giovanni Battista Montini e Mariano Rampolla Del Tindaro: carteggio 1922-1924 (1990) 1 copy
Non temete più! 1 copy
Cremona 1 copy
Evangelho aos Homens de Hoje 1 copy
Parole del pellegrino della pace: i tre discorsi del Santo Padre dalle basiliche in Terra Santa 1 copy
Pilgrimage For Peace 1 copy
Marriage, sexualite, love 1 copy
Reflections at Nazareth 1 copy
General Cathetical Directory 1 copy
Preghiere di Paolo 6 1 copy
Introduzione allo studio di Cristo: schemi di lezioni di religione per studenti di scuole superiori 1 copy
Decree on Ecumenism 1 copy
Le stagioni dello spirito. Meditazioni per le domeniche e le feste dell'anno liturgico (2000) 1 copy
El hombre como receptor de las Comunicaciones Sociales: esperanzas, derechos y deberes — Author — 1 copy
Sanctitas Clarior: For the Reordering of the Processes of Causes for Beatification and Canonization (1969) — Author — 1 copy
Multiformis Sapientia 1 copy
Associated Works
The Divine Office, Volume 1: Daily Prayer for Advent, Christmastide and Weeks 1-9 (1974) — Contributor — 197 copies, 1 review
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Contributor — 189 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Contributor — 72 copies
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Contributor — 29 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Montini, Giovanni Batista
Montini, Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria
Paulus VI
Paŭlo la 6-a - Birthdate
- 1897-09-26
- Date of death
- 1978-08-06
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Pope
cleric
Archbishop (Milan|1954-1963)
Bishop of Rome (1963-1978) - Organizations
- Roman Catholic Church
- Short biography
- Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), was Pope from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Concesio, Italy
- Places of residence
- Rome, Italy
- Place of death
- Castel Gandolfo, Italy
- Burial location
- St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
- Associated Place (for map)
- Italy
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Reviews
Reading the other reviews of Humanae Vitae, I feel like quite the odd man out... pretty much every other reviewer is coming at this from a place of faith and conservatism, because if you’re not Catholic or pro-life or just really interested in papal encyclicals, why on earth would you read Humanae Vitae anyway?
Well, because you’re trying to read a book from every country in the world and were hard-pressed to find anything for Vatican City. That’s why I read it, anyway.
So if you show more haven’t already guessed, I’m not Catholic. I’m Jewish by birth, but I don’t really identify with any religion, nor with that nebulous “spirituality”—the way I see it, what’s beyond or behind this life of mine is none of my business, and I don’t need anyone, regardless of what god or force they claim to be speaking for, telling me how to live that life so as to maximise my brownie points with their deity of choice. I’m unconcerned with questions of fate or the afterlife or our origin or divine morality or salvation. One life is enough, and I just want to spend my time on earth trying to make the best of it and ease the burdens of those around me, based on no other codes or commandments than my own.
With all that out of the way, we can start talking about this encyclical, which if you don’t know is a letter from the Pope to the bishops. They can be about pretty much anything, but this one, written in 1968, concerns birth and the regulation thereof. The 60s were a time of radical change and in the U.S. and elsewhere, women were starting to question sex-based oppression, gender roles, and the expectation that they, like their mothers, ought to stay at home and have lots of babies. Prophylaxis was becoming less of a rare and taboo thing. The sexual revolution was at hand. And the Catholic Church, of course, was none too happy.
This encyclical is part reaffirmation of Catholic ideals, part fearmongering, part entreaty. The syllogism at the heart of Humanae Vitae is as follows:
1. The purpose of marriage is the begetting of children according to “natural rhythms.”
2. Birth control prevents the begetting of children.
3. People should not use birth control as it interferes with the purpose of marriage, distancing said marriage from God’s divine will.
See, within the Church, sex is only allowed within a sanctioned marriage, with the ultimate goal of having children and becoming closer with one’s partner through this procreative act. I have no qualms about this, really—Catholics, like anybody in this country, have the right to practise their religion as they wish and to live by its tenets so long as they don’t hurt anybody or break any laws. And if Humanae Vitae simply reminded Catholic couples of the reasons they got married and reaffirmed the importance of marriage within Catholicism, then I’d be fine and dandy. What irks me, though, is that it goes a step further.
His Holiness cautions about the ruination that may await a society that chooses to embrace birth control and comprehensive sex education. These auguries are mostly vague and just ominous enough to scare any young Catholic man eyeing the condoms at the pharmacy, but they speak to something that has bothered me about Catholicism in all the literature I’ve read produced by its most faithful adherents.
It seems to have a terribly low idea of people.
Setting aside the whole “we’re all sinners” business, which rubs me the wrong way too, the Church seems to think that only a divinely-ordered code of morality is able to stop us from being terrible, cruel savages. And this encyclical reinforces that notion to a degree that really just angers and nauseates me.
I mean, jeepers. The implication that men would just become these bestial wretches if they had access to condoms, coupled with the total denial of female agency (a running theme in this piece) is, frankly, gross. Because it presupposes that the only thing keeping this in check is the fact that many men think sex is just for baby-making, but if that were to change, they wouldn’t be able to control themselves. That without some measure of asceticism and absolute fealty to the Church, humans could never achieve their full potential. That’s the really icky thing. The Catholic Church isn’t telling prospective adherents that Catholicism will enrich their lives. It’s telling them that without the framework of the Church to keep them from going astray, they’re doomed. And frankly, I find that despicable.
Also, fucking hell, separation of church and state, please! There are some really troubling statements here, such as:
I sincerely hope I’m never in a medical emergency at the mercy of a surgeon who places their faith, whatever that faith may be, above the demands of their profession. I don’t want a doctor who thinks Jesus is against euthanasia to deny it to my suffering relative. Similarly, Humanae Vitae reaffirms that all abortions are illicit, even those needed for therapeutic reasons, and I can’t help but think about how ridiculous that is. Not even because it’s anti-abortion and therefore I disagree with it, but because it’s a terrible argument for being anti-abortion. To deny a woman an abortion, force her to carry a pregnancy to term that might leave her sterile or seriously sick or even dead, in the name of no argument except “I think it’s what God would do”? Fuck that. Fuck anyone who wants the government to be run by the principles of their little religion. And Fuck Pope Paul VI’s fearmongering and regressive, cowardly ideas.
Humanae Vitae gets one star not because it is badly written, but because it has such a low opinion of humanity that it ultimately makes me sick. I have nothing but respect for anyone who follows Catholicism, but I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t just an especially elaborate method of that self-flagellation we humans seem to crave. My heart goes out to anyone who was raised in a tradition like this.
Read it for free here.
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Global Challenge: Vatican City show less
Well, because you’re trying to read a book from every country in the world and were hard-pressed to find anything for Vatican City. That’s why I read it, anyway.
So if you show more haven’t already guessed, I’m not Catholic. I’m Jewish by birth, but I don’t really identify with any religion, nor with that nebulous “spirituality”—the way I see it, what’s beyond or behind this life of mine is none of my business, and I don’t need anyone, regardless of what god or force they claim to be speaking for, telling me how to live that life so as to maximise my brownie points with their deity of choice. I’m unconcerned with questions of fate or the afterlife or our origin or divine morality or salvation. One life is enough, and I just want to spend my time on earth trying to make the best of it and ease the burdens of those around me, based on no other codes or commandments than my own.
With all that out of the way, we can start talking about this encyclical, which if you don’t know is a letter from the Pope to the bishops. They can be about pretty much anything, but this one, written in 1968, concerns birth and the regulation thereof. The 60s were a time of radical change and in the U.S. and elsewhere, women were starting to question sex-based oppression, gender roles, and the expectation that they, like their mothers, ought to stay at home and have lots of babies. Prophylaxis was becoming less of a rare and taboo thing. The sexual revolution was at hand. And the Catholic Church, of course, was none too happy.
This encyclical is part reaffirmation of Catholic ideals, part fearmongering, part entreaty. The syllogism at the heart of Humanae Vitae is as follows:
1. The purpose of marriage is the begetting of children according to “natural rhythms.”
2. Birth control prevents the begetting of children.
3. People should not use birth control as it interferes with the purpose of marriage, distancing said marriage from God’s divine will.
See, within the Church, sex is only allowed within a sanctioned marriage, with the ultimate goal of having children and becoming closer with one’s partner through this procreative act. I have no qualms about this, really—Catholics, like anybody in this country, have the right to practise their religion as they wish and to live by its tenets so long as they don’t hurt anybody or break any laws. And if Humanae Vitae simply reminded Catholic couples of the reasons they got married and reaffirmed the importance of marriage within Catholicism, then I’d be fine and dandy. What irks me, though, is that it goes a step further.
His Holiness cautions about the ruination that may await a society that chooses to embrace birth control and comprehensive sex education. These auguries are mostly vague and just ominous enough to scare any young Catholic man eyeing the condoms at the pharmacy, but they speak to something that has bothered me about Catholicism in all the literature I’ve read produced by its most faithful adherents.
It seems to have a terribly low idea of people.
Setting aside the whole “we’re all sinners” business, which rubs me the wrong way too, the Church seems to think that only a divinely-ordered code of morality is able to stop us from being terrible, cruel savages. And this encyclical reinforces that notion to a degree that really just angers and nauseates me.
It is also to be feared that the man, growing used to the employment of anti-contraceptive practices, may finally lose respect for the woman and, no longer caring for her physical and psychological equilibrium, may come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion.
I mean, jeepers. The implication that men would just become these bestial wretches if they had access to condoms, coupled with the total denial of female agency (a running theme in this piece) is, frankly, gross. Because it presupposes that the only thing keeping this in check is the fact that many men think sex is just for baby-making, but if that were to change, they wouldn’t be able to control themselves. That without some measure of asceticism and absolute fealty to the Church, humans could never achieve their full potential. That’s the really icky thing. The Catholic Church isn’t telling prospective adherents that Catholicism will enrich their lives. It’s telling them that without the framework of the Church to keep them from going astray, they’re doomed. And frankly, I find that despicable.
Also, fucking hell, separation of church and state, please! There are some really troubling statements here, such as:
We hold those physicians and medical personnel in the highest esteem who, in the exercise of their profession, value above every human interest the superior demands of their Christian vocation.
I sincerely hope I’m never in a medical emergency at the mercy of a surgeon who places their faith, whatever that faith may be, above the demands of their profession. I don’t want a doctor who thinks Jesus is against euthanasia to deny it to my suffering relative. Similarly, Humanae Vitae reaffirms that all abortions are illicit, even those needed for therapeutic reasons, and I can’t help but think about how ridiculous that is. Not even because it’s anti-abortion and therefore I disagree with it, but because it’s a terrible argument for being anti-abortion. To deny a woman an abortion, force her to carry a pregnancy to term that might leave her sterile or seriously sick or even dead, in the name of no argument except “I think it’s what God would do”? Fuck that. Fuck anyone who wants the government to be run by the principles of their little religion. And Fuck Pope Paul VI’s fearmongering and regressive, cowardly ideas.
Humanae Vitae gets one star not because it is badly written, but because it has such a low opinion of humanity that it ultimately makes me sick. I have nothing but respect for anyone who follows Catholicism, but I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t just an especially elaborate method of that self-flagellation we humans seem to crave. My heart goes out to anyone who was raised in a tradition like this.
Read it for free here.
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Global Challenge: Vatican City show less
Quello che mi ha particolarmente stupito di questa enciclica è stata la modernità del suo messaggio. Parlava negli anni ‘60 di problemi quanto mai attuali, come il debito dei paesi poveri ed il commercio equo e solidale (che ancora non esisteva!).
Insomma, nel complesso una piacevole scoperta, specie per me che mi ero sempre rifiutata di leggere le encicliche di qualsiasi papa!
http://www.naufragio.it/iltempodileggere/327
Insomma, nel complesso una piacevole scoperta, specie per me che mi ero sempre rifiutata di leggere le encicliche di qualsiasi papa!
http://www.naufragio.it/iltempodileggere/327
De iudicio contentioso ordinario / De processibus matrimonialibus: Pars dynamica by G. Paolo Montini
For a class textbook it is very complete, Monsignor Montini knows his stuff, inside and out. Regardless of the title, most of the content is Italian rather than Latin. Each chapter finishes with a very complete bibliography. Although written prior to Dignitas Conubii, Mons. Montini seems to have been working on that document and so was able to add much of what was to appear in it.
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