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...sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
Last week the Italian Government charged that Msgr. Pucci had been saving his best wartime news tips for somebody else. Pucci's name was included in a list of Mussolini's secret police, OVRA. Investigation showed, said the Government, that Pucci had acted as a spy inside the Vatican and reported on anti-Fascist activities of the Catholic Action group. (In 1931, Pope Pius XI, fearing a Vatican leak, had sent Msgr. Spellman to Paris to publish the famed anti-Fascist Encyclical Non Abbi-amo Bisogno...
...Every step in this logical process is also false," wrote Niebuhr, and proceeded to an example: the Unitarians had accused both Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Niebuhr of being "futilitarian gadflies." Said Niebuhr of himself and Sheen: "There is not only practically nothing in common between their thoughts, but both of them are very active in political causes, though the causes are more or less diametrically opposed...
...does he do it? What divine-or possibly sinister-gift does the man possess? This question has often struck dazed spectators of thin, hollow-eyed Msgr. Fulton John Sheen's success, year after year, in converting Americans to Catholicism-Columnist Heywood Broun, Capitalist Henry Ford II, Communist Louis Budenz, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and hundreds of others...
Last week, seated in a wheel chair in Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr...