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...clause to include mandatory bomb shelters in every FHA loan contract was quietly shunted aside. Shelved too was a plan to enlist churches in the civil defense program, and it took the firmest kind of official persuasion to keep Ellis from flying off to Rome for a papal endorsement...
...March 2-3, 752, but two days later, before he could be crowned, died of apoplexy. His fierce face still stares down at worshipers in the central nave of Rome's St. Paul's Basilica, but the current Yearbook's compiler, Msgr. Angelo Lanzoni, decided that papal coronation should be the criterion...
Most recent previous correction of the papal succession was in 1947, when the Yearbook's compiler decided that Athenian Pope St. Anacletus (circa 100-112) and Roman Pope St. Cletus (circa 78-90) were really the same man; therefore he dropped Anacletus. Confusions and discrepancies abound in ancient records. St. Felix, who died in 365, is erroneously listed as Pope Felix II (355-365); scholars still are not sure whether Dioscorus, who died in 530 and is listed as an antipope,* was not in fact legitimate, or whether Leo VIII (963-965), the candidate of Emperor Otto...
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...
After the death of Pius XII, a rush order came from the Vatican to make three papal soutanes, one for a large man, one medium, one small. When the cardinals were locked in conclave to elect a new Pope, the outfits were locked up with them. "It is difficult to cut without anyone specific in mind," says Gammarelli. A shrewd papal handicapper, he felt that in case of a deadlock the compromise candidate might be an old customer of his, Venice's Cardinal Roncalli, and cut the garments for the large man with him in mind. Bonaventura...