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...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
...week's end, Msgr. Joseph Hurley, acting apostolic nuncio to Belgrade, rushed back to his post after consultations in Rome. The Tito Government prepared for an elaborate show trial. Said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "We think of [Stepanic] like his Lord, accused of having deceived the people, of not having yielded unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, for having said that he was able to destroy in three days the temple of Titus. . . ." For Titus, the Vatican paper, which is written in Italian, used the Italian word, Tito...
...appointing Bishop Hurley to its top diplomatic post in Belgrade, the Vatican took an unusual step. Except for Archbishop Paschal Robinson in Eire. Bishop Hurley will be the only papal nuncio who is not Italian...
Died. Luigi Cardinal Maglione, 67, seasoned, Fascist-hated Papal Secretary of State since 1939, longtime Vatican Nuncio to France; of neuritis and circulatory ailments; in his birthplace, Casoria, near Naples. Heavy-smoking Cardinal Maglione succeeded his schoolmate Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli as Secretary of State when Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, was so close to him that Italians punned: whenever the Pope went out without his maglione (Italian for large sweater), he caught cold...
...Russian Revolution had just begun) Pacelli went as Papal Nuncio to Munich, tried (and failed) to talk the Kaiser into a peaceful frame of mind After the Kaiser fled, Pacelli lived through the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On one occasion he faced down a band of armed revolutionaries who had broken into the Papal Embassy, intending to loot the building...