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Last week Rome's official Jesuit fortnightly, Civiltà Cattolica, printed a significant article to explain how mistaken this idea was. "There are many sincere believers, Catholics full of idealism, who look with disquietude and almost a secret anguish on the diplomatic activity of the vicar of Jesus Christ. They would prefer . . . that the Church should never appear to be conniving with this or that policy or with any particular regime." Such notions, the article went on, grew out of ignorance of what Vatican diplomacy really is, or how much the spiritual good of Catholics can be benefited...
Committee of Cardinals. Civiltà Cattolica's article gave new impetus to Vatican rumors that the Pope is planning an important realignment and expansion of the Holy See's diplomatic machinery. Having spent almost his entire priesthood in the diplomatic service (nine years of it as Secretary of State), Pius XII now serves as his own Secretary of State and is reputed to have accomplished some of the most skillful diplomatic egg-walking of modern times. But before long, Vatican observers report, the Pope may turn the job of directing the enlarged diplomatic service over to a committee...
...Lewis (see p. 36), but the Vatican's blow was something else. Puzzled Rotarians in the U.S.Catholic as well as Protestantreacted with a stunned and unanimous "Why?" Some remembered a campaign against Rotary waged in 1928-29 by Rome's potent Jesuit magazine, Civiltà Cattolica. In many countries, the magazine charged, Rotary was altogether too friendly with the Masons, and was dangerously prone to the error of treating all religions as of equal value...
...There's no question of innovation, but only of clarification," protested black-haired Jesuit Father Antonio Messineo in Rome last week. Those who regarded his article in the Jesuit fortnightly Civiltâ Cattolica as something new in Roman Catholic thought, he said, were wrong. Father Messineo's conclusion had been that "tolerance is a duty of both individuals and states towards those who have accepted error and profess error." This tolerance, reasoned Messineo, rises out of the respect due to the human person and to his God-given right of exercising his reason and working...
...Church's Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill heartily concurred with his British spiritual brothers. But Roman Catholics were quick to discount any divisive effect of the new dogma. The Assumption would be no impediment "to our separated brothers," wrote the Rev. Giuseppe Filograssi in the authoritative Jesuit fornightly Civiltà Catholica. "The true and crucial point of dissension rests in the primacy and infallibility of the Pope...