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Died. Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, 87, able, globe-trotting ecclesiastical diplomat and administrator, director of the worldwide Roman Catholic missionary effort for the past 27 years, and a onetime (1923-33) apostolic delegate to the U.S.; after a long illness; in Rome. Head of a field force of approximately 95,000 missionary priests, nuns and lay brothers baptizing an estimated 500,000 converts each year, the cardinal urged the formation of a native clergy in Asia and Africa, lived to see more than 100 bishops and five cardinals chosen from those areas...
...Pontiff postponed a scheduled audience with Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, the Prefect of Propaganda Fide, and received the two Americans at once. They were with him 56 minutes. From the Pope's study on the second floor, Flynn moved to the third-floor office of Monsignor Domenico Tardini, the Vatican's Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs and president of the special Vatican Committee for Russia...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...Pope'' of the Roman Catholic Church is that most puissant Cardinal in charge of its vast foreign missions-the prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith. Present "Red Pope" is Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, bald, round-faced Roman who from 1922 to 1933 was Apostolic Delegate in Washington, D. C. In pious sorrow last week the Cardinal-Prefect reminded the world that today no less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII...
...Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia...