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The Press: None So Good

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TIME

“If St. Paul had lived today.” said Pope John XXIII last week to 250 newsmen from Rome’s Foreign Press Association, “he would probably have been a journalist. St. Peter was a good talker, but no one was as good as St. Paul. It was he who caused the Gospel to be preached to the ends of the earth. Can we doubt that he would have done it by means of the press, had he lived in the 20th century?”

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