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Died. Giovanni Cardinal Mercati, 90, Vatican librarian and archivist of the Roman Catholic Church, disciplined scholar ("I'm always ready to learn") who wrote some 400 arcane works, was created a cardinal by his friend, the late Pope Pius XI; of a heart attack; in Vatican City. Surviving in the 70-member College of Cardinals...
...Rummel (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), onetime pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in New York's Harlem. Last week some of his own segregation-minded flock went over his head to the Pope to protest against Rummel's "strange new doctrine." In a letter to Pius XII, the Association of Catholic Laymen of New Orleans asked the Pope to stop Rummel from taking "further steps" to integrate white and Negro Catholics and to decree that racial segregation is not "morally wrong and sinful." Concluded the letter: "For the good of souls something must be done...
Spiritual Semites. Pope Pius XI once referred to Catholics as "spiritual Semites". "The stronger his faith and the more profound his appreciation of it," says Jesuit Davis, "the more 'Semitic' a Catholic realizes himself to be. For he comes to know how intimately his roots are laced with those of the Jew." The U.S. Protestant, on the other hand, does not share the same long-range perspective. "Everything that took place, religiously speaking, before Jamestown, the Mayflower, William Penn or Mary Baker Eddy, appears to him to be something which happened to 'foreigners...
Eight years ago Pope Pius XII trained Roman Catholicism's biggest gun on Communism. Party members and collaborators, he decreed, were automatically excommunicated. This tough tactic obviously could backfire-especially in areas like Bologna and Emilia, where 85% of the population was at least nominally Communist. To keep their flocks from evaporating, many a priest uncomfortably ignored the papal decree, went on marrying and burying known Communists...
...Pius XII, who has been seen by more people than any Pope in history, registered three firsts: for the first time in his reign he granted a delegation of Jews (from the American Jewish Committee) a formal pontifical address. For the first time since the Russian revolution a group of Russian tourists visited St. Peter's Basilica while the Pope was carried through the aisles in his shoulder-borne chair (they disappeared before the apostolic benediction). And for the first time women's fashions received smiles rather than censure from the Vatican. In receiving some 200 designers, models...