Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra, in Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the Pope had heard of me. I was speechless. I am enthralled by all the grandeur. I am thrilled...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York was the subject of the latest Roman rumor: he would be made a cardinal next fall, then papal Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman served in the secretariat for seven years-two of them while Pope Pius XII was papal Secretary of State...
...Pope Pius XII, in good health and high spirits, told 5,000 Italian sportsmen that sport based on fair play "elevates the spirit above small-mindedness, dishonesty and trickery" . . . develops a Christian domination of the human body-which the Church regards as "a masterpiece of God ... a temple of the Holy Spirit...
France's Charles de Gaulle felt it, though he and Franklin Roosevelt supposedly reacted on each other like flint and steel. Head bowed, the General signed his name in the register of bereavement at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Pope Pius XII felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first...
...drew into San Damaso courtyard in Vatican City. Out stepped dapper, grey-haired Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, fresh from Cairo, Moscow and Yalta. Eight minutes ahead of time, he and dark-clad Myron C. Taylor, Presidential representative at the Vatican, hurried to the private study of Pope Pius...