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Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred...
It was the week of his 82nd birthday, but Pope Pius XII was in no mood to celebrate. For days he fumed and brooded in his chambers. Then Osservatore Romano curtly announced that because of "the bitterness, sorrow and outrage in Italy," His Holiness had canceled the festivities that were...
U.S. Ambassador to Italy James D. Zellerbach went to the Vatican, presented Pope Pius XII with 1957's George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His...
Back from an overseas vacation, Washington's gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about...
When Bishop Latimer was about to burn at the stake for his Protestant loyalties (during the reign of Catholic "Bloody Mary" Tudor), he not only spoke one of history's most famous lines but defined an age: "We shall this day light such a candle by God's...