Giovanni Battista Montini was Pontiff from 1963 at 1978, with the name acquired by Paul VI. Bresciano of origin, He turned down the priestly life; the study of theology in the church made him a profound knowledge of the doctrine of the Church. In the 1930s, arrived at the Vatican as Secretary to Pope Pius XII followed the appointment as Archbishop of Milan. Death in 1963 Pope John XXIII opened the doors to the pontificate. The first problem that the new Pontiff faced were the Second Vatican Council proclaimed by his predecessor. The Church understood that the world was quickly changing and needed an overhaul of its mechanisms to keep pace with society, but finding agreement between the various souls inside the Church was a daunting task that, However, Montini knew how to conduct and complete. In the seventies in Italy, popular movements in favour of divorce and abortion, and any subsequent institutional victories marked the furrow between the Church and society. Paul's answer was entrusted to two encyclicals, theHumanae Vitae And the Populorum Progressio: While the first reaffirmed the centrality of man in relation to God in deep respect of the dictates of the Church, the second condemned world poverty, coming to justify mutiny of the poor masses against the abuses of dictatorships. The world welcomed the Pontiff's writings so ambivalent: the reformers called him too conservative, While the conservatives too reformer. The kidnapping of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades and the letter written by hand by the Pope for the release of his friend were the last act of his life. Malik died on the day of the Transfiguration of 1978 repeating what had been the last words of the Apostle Paul: "I have fought the good fight, I finished the walk, I have kept the faith ".
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