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...background of controversies that are still making news. The question of a U.S. diplomatic representative at the Vatican first came up in 1779, when John Adams wrote the Continental Congress that he hoped it would "never send a minister to His Holiness," nor receive a Roman Catholic nuncio in the U.S. But when Pius IX was elected Pope in 1846, his reputation for liberalism made U.S. Protestants so enthusiastic that the event was celebrated with nondenominational mass meetings in New York and Philadelphia...
...next in line to Theodore Cardinal Innitzer, Austria's Roman Catholic primate. Saturday night he fasted. Sunday morning, pale and strained, he donned the robes of his new office, motored to St. Stephen's Cathedral. The eyes of high church and state dignitaries, including Cardinal Innitzer, Papal Nuncio Johann Dellepiane and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl, were upon...
...pleased by the fact that Protestant and Roman Catholic cooperation on the refugee problem was progressing. Taking part in the conference was Msgr. Jacob Weinbacher, chief of the Austrian Caritas, international Roman Catholic welfare organization. Said he: "When I received the invitation, I was hesitant. I asked my papal nuncio whether I should go ... whether I should merely sit or join in the talks. It is most fortunate that both churches have decided to meet the social implications of refugee work together...
...Democracy Has Triumphed." Early in the morning, the government decided to make a deal. At President Arevalo's request, the Papal Nuncio and the ambassadors of El Salvador and Argentina asked for a truce and offered the rebels generous terms, including amnesty and a government reorganization. Running low on ammunition, the rebels agreed...
Died. Enrico Cardinal Sibilia, 87, longtime Papal Nuncio to Austria (1923-35), oldest member of the College of Cardinals; in Anagni, Italy. His death created the 11th vacancy in the College in the past two years...