In an age of change and crisis, the Roman Catholic Church is moving toward a showdown on some of the major issues of modern times--and the world is watching. The stirrings within the church encompass such questions as its positions on artificial birth control, the population explosion, relations with communism, race relations and its role in an age of space exploration, atomic weapons and emerging nations. Pope Paul VI seen against background of world and problems.

Photo is dated 1964.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.