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...Assisi. What really interested him was the movements of Allied ambassadors at the Vatican. Other spies tapped telephones, monitored Vatican Radio transmissions and intercepted cables. Experts in Hermann Göring's aviation ministry cracked the code by which Rome communicated with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, its apostolic nuncio in Berlin...
...Once every two years, the bishops of a province-a group of dioceses headed by an archbishop-meet to discuss the qualifications of priests who should be considered for advancement. The names of the top candidates are submitted to the Vatican's apostolic delegate or papal nuncio, who then passes them on to Rome's Sacred Consistorial Congregation after making his own investigation of their qualities. To fill smaller sees, the Pope usually accepts one of the province's nominees; major archbishoprics, more often than not, involve the elevation of a prelate who has proved his worth...
...service in 1938 as secretary of the papal nunciature in Guatemala. He is no stranger to the U.S., having spent seven years in Washington during the '40s as a secretary and auditor at the apostolic delegation. He also served as chargé d'affaires in India and nuncio to Haiti, and since 1956 has discharged his functions as apostolic delegate in anticlerical Mexico with cautious tact. The white-thatched Raimondi is described by acquaintances as "a liberal who knows his limitations," and "a likable man who wants to be liked...
...fact that he once granted asylum to President Joaquin Balaguer. He also made his peace with the Roman Catholic Church in October by participating in a four-hour ceremony inaugurating the first native Haitian archbishop and four new Haitian bishops. The Vatican in return sent a new Papal nuncio and lifted Duvalier's earlier excommunication. As for the Communists, Haiti is one of the few Latin American countries on which they seem to have no designs: it is too helplessly backward even for them...
...front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware that the Nazi archives are incomplete but could find only three ineffectual and half-hearted inquiries by the Vatican nuncio in Berlin, Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, regarding Nazi persecution of the Jews...