The only existing biography of the 33 Day Pope. It is the record of
his struggles as an impoverished child, as a revolutionary priest,
as an outspoken bishop, as a compassionate cardinal and as a
beloved pope. It is the record of his philosophies, and of his
hopes, and of his dreams, for mankind. For twenty years as a
bishop, he was a rampaging locomotive running about the courts and
Parliament of Italy demanding equal rights for oppressed peoples.
In 1967, faced by an orphan population of two million in Italy, it
was his lobbying in Italian Parliament that made it legal for
single persons to adopt children. An opposition member challenged,
"That would make it legal for homosexuals to adopt children,"
Bishop Luciani, responded, "Until the day comes that we can
guarantee equal human rights and dignity to the tiniest minority,
we cannot truthfully call ourselves a democracy." His intentions
concerning bastards, women, homosexuals, etc. was quite evident in
his acceptance speech, ." . . we must rise up the courage within us
to set aside the convictions of our forefathers and together we
will muster the strength to lift those restraints that have been
unfairly placed by doctrine upon the everyday lives of many
innocent people . . . for God-given human life is infinitely more
precious than is man-made doctrine . . ." On the evening of
September 26, 1978, he called together the Vatican cardinals. He
told them "The Church's ban on contraception is the driving force
behind disease, poverty and starvation in third world countries and
abortions in first world countries." . . .He told them one thing
more. "Mother Church is about to cease to be the cause of many of
the world's problems and rather will begin to be the answer to
them."
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