Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many thought the Cardinal's trip had a larger, undisclosed purpose. Was Cardinal Villeneuve carrying a message to Pius XII from Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? Cried the Vatican: "Fantastic!" But observers noted that when Cardinal Villeneuve went in for his hour's talk with the Pope, he carried a bulky envelope sealed with five wax seals. He came out without...
...chair. He had trouble straddling it, his face to the hillock. Quickly Caruso's pudgy body was bound to the chair's back. Then he was left with the priest. They talked. Caruso prayed and kissed a tiny crucifix attached to a specially blessed rosary that Pope Pius XII had sent him. The priest stepped away...
...Pope Pius XII last week addressed himself to buzz-bombed Londoners: "We have sympathized. . . . We exhort you to bear your trials with Christian resignation and fortitude and also with Christian sentiments of forgiveness, charity and mercy so that God may reward in you what the world will admire in you-an example of magnanimity inspired by the spirit of Christ's Gospel...
This despairing cry of a nation in agony, slicing through the international joy over the liberation of Paris, was radioed last week to Pope Pius XII in the name of the women of Warsaw...
Died. Luigi Cardinal Maglione, 67, seasoned, Fascist-hated Papal Secretary of State since 1939, longtime Vatican Nuncio to France; of neuritis and circulatory ailments; in his birthplace, Casoria, near Naples. Heavy-smoking Cardinal Maglione succeeded his schoolmate Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli as Secretary of State when Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, was so close to him that Italians punned: whenever the Pope went out without his maglione (Italian for large sweater), he caught cold...