Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Spellman got back to the U.S. last August from a 46,000-mile visit to 34 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, thousands of U.S. fighting men, Pope Pius XII, practically every top-flight Allied statesman and military leader, and Generalissimo Franco, and promptly published the highlights of his trip in Collier...
...Italian Communists are concerned, the Pope can stay. In the new Italy, the Italian Communist Party agreed last week, Pius XII can remain "if the people wish it-we have nothing against him." But, added the Communists, "many of the Cardinals are Fascists." They also proposed to "separate the Church from the State, admitting the Church only to the exercise of religious functions from its seat in Rome...
...snapper" on the scene when Assassin Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt in Miami in 1933. Result: a memorable picture of fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. Of all the U.S. photographers who tried, Sammy alone got into Rome's St. Peter's in 1939 for Pope Pius XII's coronation...
London reported last week that the Germans had advised Pius to seek refuse in Liechtenstein, the tiny (65 sq. mi.) Catholic principality tucked in the mountains between Switzerland and Germany. But Pius would not voluntarily leave his neutral haven...
...Vatican radio (still unsilenced by the Nazis) fortnight ago broadcast an important reminder, authorized by Pope Pius XII, to Roman Catholic laymen. In case of bombing or other wartime emergencies it is the duty of Roman Catholic laymen to rescue the Host from the altar or to gather up any Hosts or pieces of Hosts which may have been blasted to the sanctuary floor. Normally only priests and deacons are supposed to handle the Blessed Sacrament...