Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Innovator. Pius XII was often described as an innovator, impelled to innovate not so much by temperament (for he was gentle, cautious and diolomatic) as by the force of the times. He was the first Pope to use a telephone regularly, the first to use a typewriter (a white...
The Cunctator. Pius XII was the only Pope to have visited America (in 1936 when he was Vatican Secretary of State), and his pontificate was notable for its strengthened ties with the U.S. Five U.S. cardinals were named during his reign (James Cardinal Mclntyre, Edward Cardinal Mooney, Francis Cardinal Spellman...
HE who enters the conclave Pope comes out cardinal," holds an old Roman proverb, indicating that predictions are as risky in papal elections as in any other. At the conclave which meets in the Vatican Oct. 25, several questions are likely to arise:
Pope Pius last week named the successor to the late Cardinal Stritch as Archbishop of Chicago-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 Catholics). He is Albert Gregory Meyer, for five years Archbishop of Milwaukee. (New York's and TV's Bishop Fulton Sheen was...
"Death to the Cathedral" recalls the story of a Catholic who, after seeing Manhattan's Cardinal Spellman rush into the private office of famed real estate man William Zeckendorf, gasped, "Oh my gosh, there goes St. Patrick's Cathedral."