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|+ style="background:#cedff2; text-align:center; border: 1px solid #B8C7D9;"|'''Modern Bishops of Rome''' | |||
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|Benedict XV | |||
||1914 | |||
||1922 | |||
||WWI. Fought for a settled peace from 1914 vs. a total victory by one side or the other. Strong devotion to the Virgin Mary and humanitarian efforts. | |||
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|Pius XI | |||
||1922 | |||
||1939 | |||
||Inaugurated the Catholic Action movement. Established Vatican Radio. On exumenism, ruled that protestants could only be reconciled by denouncing all the doctrines they rejected. Vatican city receives sovereignty. Mixed response to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini. | |||
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|Pius XII | |||
||1939 | |||
||1958 | |||
||Used Papal infallibility to define assumption of Mary. Addressed family planning and evolution. Appointed two Jews to work in the Vatican, but did not assist the thousands who died in concentration camps. Stalled diplomated efforts to export Jews to safer countries. Non-responsive in WWII. Described by the British foreign council as the "the greatest moral coward of our age". The vatican stated that it was "unable to denounce publicly particular atrocities" and only addressed humanity in vague and general terms. Opposed communism. | |||
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|John XXIII | |||
||1958 | |||
||1963 | |||
||Called the second vatican council to promote ecumenism. Met with the archbishop of Canterbury. Awarded the "presidential medal of Freedom" by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson. | |||
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|Paul VI | |||
||1963 | |||
||1978 | |||
||Implemented the decrees of the second vatican council. Addressed birth control. Met with orthodox patriarch, and travelled the world. | |||
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|John Paul I | |||
||1978 | |||
||1978 | |||
||Lasted 33 days. Known as the smiling Pope. | |||
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|John Paul II | |||
||1978 | |||
||2005 | |||
||Instrumental in the fall of communism, expanded influence in the third world. Appealed to the youth. was morally conservative. Travelled worldwide. Supported ecumenism. | |||
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|Benedict XVI | |||
||2005 | |||
||present | |||
||Fights secularism, promotes ecumenism. Deals with strong allegations of paedophiles in the priesthood under his watch as Archbishop, Cardinal and Pope. | |||
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