http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/12/20/pope-declares-paul-vi-lived-a-life-of-heroic-virtue/

Pope declares Paul VI lived a life of heroic virtue

By Carol Glatz on Thursday, 20 December 2012

Pope Benedict XVI has advanced the Cause of Pope Paul VI by recognising the Italian pope as having lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way.

(blah blah about other people)

During a meeting today with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the Pope signed the decree approving the heroic virtues of Pope Paul VI, making him “Venerable”. Before Pope Paul can be beatified, the Vatican must recognise that a miracle has occurred through his intercession.

Born Giovanni Battista Montini 1897 in the northern Italian province of Brescia, Pope Paul VI is probably best remembered for seeing the Second Vatican Council through to its end and helping implement its far-reaching reforms.

He is also well remembered as the author of Humanae Vitae, his 1968 encyclical reaffirming Church teaching that artificial birth control is intrinsically wrong, which became a focus of controversy and dissent.

Amid the strains and pressures following Vatican II, he received the nickname the “Hamlet pope” for his reportedly anguished decision-making and his evident suffering over problems of the Church. However, he was also remembered as a strong leader who decisively guided the Church through a time of crisis.

Pope Paul was the first modern pontiff to start visiting local churches around the globe, making nine major trips abroad.

Prior to his election, he spent more than 30 years helping to run the Vatican’s diplomatic machinery at the Secretariat of State, but his diplomatic skills never overshadowed his priestly love of serving those in need.

He worked on behalf of prisoners and the politically persecuted during World War Two, pleaded for peace to world leaders, appealed for the lives of condemned terrorists and kidnapped politicians, and donated the papal tiara to raise money for the poor.

He was elected pope in 1963 and died at age 80 in 1978. The Rome diocese officially opened his Cause in 1993.

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Waited for Dom Villa to be dead a month and a couple of days before he started this again, just as he predicted.

http://www.chiesaviva.com/paoloVI%20beatoin.pdf

If you haven't read this yet, you should.

The SSPX even dialoguing with people that want to canonize a satanist sodomite who betrayed hundreds of prelates behind the Iron Curtain, should send people near Bishop Fellay running away in horror.

Oh, great. If Time magazine put Paul VI on its cover, then it definitely tells you
something ...

I guess obituaries are more of a Western type thing. Everyone in this country gets one. In Italy, they don't have obituaries for people unless they were "famous" or something. So, the only thing I could find was this.