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...grandeur of the funeral, the mourners 'who thronged the Vatican this week-the foreign statesmen as well as the crowds of Romans who had cheered him for years as he rode through his city -knew the simplicity and the intelligent humanity that had been present beneath the papal pomp. And they would scarcely agree with his humble self-assessment of "failures" and "insufficiency." Men of all faiths agreed that Pius XII had been a great Pope...
...DOGMA. Pius XII spectacularly stiffened the fabric of faith by promulgating the ancient dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into Heaven (in doing so he was the first Pope in history to make such public exercise of the 1870 dogma of papal infallibility). In 1950 in the encyclical Humani Generis he cracked down hard on Catholic teachers, priests and philosophers whose speculations might carry them away from the dogmas of -the church and the formal system of thought laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas. ¶ NATIONALISM. Pope Pius laid claim once more to the church...
...once asked that all men be made to "feel the attraction of Christian goodness." That was what most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal (he often studied the sports pages of newspapers as carefully as the political news, because at many audiences he was required to talk more about...
...enters the conclave Pope comes out cardinal," holds an old Roman proverb, indicating that predictions are as risky in papal elections as in any other. At the conclave which meets in the Vatican Oct. 25, several questions are likely to arise...
CASTEL GONDOLFO, Italy, Oct. 8--Pius XII, for 19 troubled years the "Pope of Peace," died this morning in the papal summer castle alongside Lake Albano...