Word: nuncios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of mistake that is part of the training of a professional. The U.S. was interested in the doings of rising young Rabble Rouser Adolf Hitler. Murphy reported that Hitler was simply too loony to be dangerous. Among the diplomatic observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope Pius XII: "Now Robert, wait a minute. Don't you even mention papal infallibility...
...propagandists had to go on was a 15-minute "courtesy call" that the Russian charge d'affaires in Rome. Dmitry Pogidaev, had begged of the papal nuncio to Italy. Monsignor Giuseppe Fietta. During the meeting Pogidaev thrust upon Fietta two familiar "peace" propaganda documents, and Fietta read his caller a stiff lecture on the sad state of religious freedom in Russia. Then Pope Pius XII himself slapped down the reconciliation rumors. Before any agreement with "the enemy" could be considered, he reiterated, the church must have full freedom-not merely freedom of worship but freedom "to care...
...Vatican, Germany's go-getting Automaker Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 18, 1954) had a private audience with Pope Pius XII, a friend of Nordhoff's ever since the Pope was a papal nuncio in Berlin. Good Catholic Nordhoff presented His Holiness with a flashy new Volkswagen station wagon with a red body and black suntop...
...prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...between Perón and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires could touch off widespread rumors of a truce. Last week any lingering wisps of hope for a peace evaporated. Perón called his envoy to the Vatican home for "consultations," and the Vatican reciprocated by summoning its apostolic nuncio to Rome for "consultations." The official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, labeled Perón's government "totalitarian." In an unconsciously comic gesture, intended as an affront to the pious, the Perónista Party announced the formation of a "lay order" of Sisters...