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...Osservatore's story but with a distinctly different accent. The Pope, said Cicognani, had received many messages deploring the Rosenbergs' death sentences. Last December, on orders from the Vatican, Cicognani passed this information along, without comment, to Truman's Attorney General McGranery, a Catholic papal knight...
Late in 1952, when the Vatican made a cardinal of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac -a man long persecuted by the Tito regime and still confined to his native village-Tito broke relations with the Holy See and sent the papal charge d'affaires packing. Last week the Marshal invited seven high Yugoslav prelates to a conference at his villa. The churchmen came, smiled, registered for the nth time some old complaints, but agreed to join a church-government commission to study religious problems. Tito's propaganda organs claimed that the conference showed the government's "tolerance" of religion...
Toward Rome last week, by roads that began in Bombay, Bogota, Los Angeles and other far-off places, traveled the princes of the Roman Catholic Church. Among them, bound for their first papal consistory, were 17 of the church's 24* new cardinals. One of the last to arrive, after a stormy Atlantic crossing in a Constellation named Star of Vatican City, was Los Angeles' Archbishop Francis A. McIntyre, the single new cardinal from...
...they awaited the consistory, the prelates checked in with friends at the Vatican, had last-minute fittings of the robes which they would wear, and got detailed briefings from papal attendants on their roles in the complex ceremonies. At Rome's Grand Hotel, the 61 U.S. clergymen and laymen who had accompanied Archbishop McIntyre got ready for the big day. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman arrived by jet airliner on his way home from his Christmas visit to Korea...
...cardinals-Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac and Poland's Stefan Wyszynski-stayed at home rather than run the risk of being refused readmittance to their countries. By long custom, the Spanish nominees and the papal nuncios to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy would receive their insignia of office from local heads of state...