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...record is puzzling. One of his first major personnel changes was removing the aged, archconservative Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo as head of the church's doctrine-guarding ministry, the Holy Office-only to name the equally conservative Cardinal Ottaviani as Pizzardo's successor. As Papal Nuncio to France, John seemed to be sympathetic to the worker-priest movement, despite strong Vatican disapproval; after he became Pope, John issued an order that killed the experiment for good. In talks with audiences, John has sometimes spoken favorably of translating parts of the Mass into the vernacular; yet last winter he issued...
...Jose da Costa Nunes of Portugal; Efrem Forni, the apostolic nuncio to Belgium; Archbishop Juan Landazuri Ricketts of Lima; Gabriel Acacio Coussa of Syria; Archbishop Raul Silva Henriques of Santiago, Chile; Archbishop Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels; Dominican Father Michael Browne; Vatican Librarian Anselmo Albareda. In accordance with tradition, Giovanni Panico and Ildebrando Antoniutti, the apostolic nuncios to Portugal and Spain, will receive their red hats from the heads of state in those countries. - Cardinals who belong to religious orders wear robes that are the same color as the habit of their order...
...palace, Council Chief Rafael Bonnelly formally reconvened the Council and announced: "I am the President of the Republic and of the Council of State." He accepted the resignation of Balaguer (who had prudently taken asylum in the residence of the papal nuncio), and then came the cheers, the backslaps and embraces. The only foreign diplomat invited to the celebration: able young (40) Charge Hill, representing...
Back to Rome. Behind the apparent surrender lay a long and bitter assault on the church by Trujillo. The man most responsible for awakening the hierarchy last year was Papal Nuncio Lino Zanini who arrived in Ciudad Trujillo only three months before the pastoral, looked around and told the bishops to fight. After the pastoral, the nuncio received anonymous letters threatening his life. Boston-born Bishop Thomas Reilly found his residence encircled by secret police goons, was trailed wherever he went, was threatened with expulsion, even violent death...
Missions & Missives. The crusade began three weeks ago, when Papal Nuncio Monsignor Humberto Mozzoni dispatched 2,000 missionaries "to open the dialogue between the church and Argentina on the everlasting efficacy of the Gospel for the advancement of the Argentine people...