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...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...
...Cross, the Catholics, the U.S. (he sold a half-million dollars' worth of Liberty Bonds). The Church made him a Papal Count; his records and his concerts made him the best-paid concert singer in history (total earnings...
...political campaign against either Socialists or Communists. When Kazimierz Papee, Ambassador from the London Polish Government, appeared with Polish soldiers at the Vatican, the Pope addressed him by his name, but not his title. Osservatore Romano failed to mention him in its report of the audience, indicating Papal recognition of the fact that the London Polish Government had been replaced by one made in Moscow. Vatican officials said that "though the Holy See was filled with benevolence toward Polish troops . . . and wished for a completely independent and democratic Poland, the Catholic Church was bound to acknowledge the existence...
...first time Dom Carlos Duarte da Costa, onetime Bishop of Botucatu in Sao Paulo, had been in his church's black books. In 1934, he publicly refused to follow a papal nunciate's political instructions. He was thereupon quietly retired, given the honorary title of Bishop of Maura, no diocese. From the outside, Duarte took an increasingly critical view of what he considered his church's political leanings. He became increasingly outspoken and unpopular with his superiors...
Last May, 57-year-old Bishop Duarte gave newspaper interviews accusing Brazil's papal nunciate of Nazi-Fascist spying. He accused Rome of aiding and abetting Hitler. Finally he heretically announced plans to set up his own Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, in which priests would be permitted to marry (and hold regular jobs in the lay world), confessions and rosaries would be abolished, bishops would be elected by popular vote. After that, his excommunication was inevitable...