Word: amleto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papal envoy to the Philippines since 1949. Archbishop Vagnozzi, the son of a Roman clerk, spent virtually all his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, has also had experience in the U.S. as secretary to the Apostolic Delegation from 1932 to 1942. In the U.S. post, Vagnozzi succeeds Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, whose new duties include posts in three of the Sacred Congregations...
...Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, 75, born to a poor peasant family in the north Italian town of Brisighella, served as a young priest in the Curia, became an expert on canon law. Named apostolic delegate to the U.S. hierarchy in 1933 and stationed in Washington, he has served since then as unofficial diplomatic contact between the Vatican and the U.S. Government. In appointing him cardinal, Pope John made a rare exception to the rule that close relatives are not to be members of the College of Cardinals at the same time: Cicognani's brother Gaetano (two years older) has been...
...Washington, Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., confirmed L'Osservatore's story but with a distinctly different accent. The Pope, said Cicognani, had received many messages deploring the Rosenbergs' death sentences. Last December, on orders from the Vatican, Cicognani passed this information along, without comment, to Truman's Attorney General McGranery, a Catholic papal knight...