Word: pius
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Arthur Murray's five: Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Ann Miller and Mrs. Murray, "who is not only a superb dancer but has all the additional qualities that would make a man happy in retirement." Pope Pius XII told 3,000 newly weds to trust each other, emphasized that if the husband was a doctor, a lawyer, state official or military officer with professional secrets "the wife must show she trusts her husband and make no attempt to learn the secret...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...
...fair guess that his personal envoy to the Vatican, onetime Steelman Myron C. Taylor, had discussed the same question with Pope Pius XII. At week's end Mr. Taylor, just back by Clipper, waited to make his confidential report to the President...
Instead of returning straight to the U.S. with whatever answer Pope Pius XII had given to President Roosevelt's message on war-&-peace aims, the President's envoy, Myron Charles Taylor, last week changed his plans and flew from Lisbon to London. There he talked with Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant, U.S. Minister to the Allies Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., U.S. Minister to Eire David Gray. He let it be known that he might also go to Eire to confer with President Eamon de Valera...
...Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject to papal ruling. They consistently invalidated mixed marriage not performed with "due precautions" by a Catholic priest...