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...Pius XII, and left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
Bishop-elect Hurley's predecessor at St. Augustine, the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, had died only six days before. Such promptness in filling the vacancy was almost unprecedented. Obviously the Vatican was anxious to get Monsignor Hurley to the U. S. in an official capacity as soon as possible. Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor. Next day the Pope gave a private audience to the Bishop-elect, reportedly gave...
Many a Catholic thought the appointment might mean that a still higher promotion was in store for Monsignor Hurley. The U. S. hierarchy has long urged the Vatican to send an American as Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., especially since Britain has an English-born Papal representative. Present occupant of the hand some $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Washington's Embassy Row is an Italian, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. Bishop-elect Hurley's six-year tenure at the Vatican, plus the diplomatic posts he has capably filled in India and Japan, make...
...Clergymen of nearly all faiths (but by no means all clergymen) put themselves in opposition by sermons, letters, testimony before Congressional committees. Typical Catholic: Monsignor Michael J. Ready of the National Catholic Welfare Conference who pleaded for volunteer recruiting. Typical Methodist: prime, bespectacled Dr. Charles F. Boss Jr. (conscription would "junk the American system"). Dr. Boss presided at an anti-conscription rally in Washington, where posters ("We're using our ballots so we won't stop bullets") indicated that his audience would not furnish many volunteers...
...these policies did not necessarily add up to a Fascist State, nor to making Laval quite the Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope...