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Another though less important reason for delay is the almost poetic complexity of Vatican policies as exemplified in the Montini-Tardini situation. Monsignors Giovanni Montini and Domenico Tardini labored long in the Vatican as equal advisers to the Pope until Pius XII appointed Montini Archbishop of Milan two years ago. At the next consistory, Montini will surely be made a cardinal, and that should normally mean a red hat also for Tardini, now pro-Secretary of State. But Tardini refuses to be a cardinal; he has all the power and honor he wants, feels that the ceremonies attendant upon...
...rare foray beyond the Vatican's walls, Pope Pius XII journeyed a short distance in Rome, appeared at the sooth anniversary celebration of the Collegio Capranica, a small but distinguished seminary (world's oldest) where he was a young student 62 years ago. His Holiness kissed the feet of an old familiar crucifix, inspected the tiny room he once occupied, presented the college with a pearl-encrust ed chalice as a quincentennial present...
...Pope Pius XII, 82, gravely ill two years ago, underwent a periodic physical, was pronounced to be in "more than satisfactory" shape...
...world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years. In another month Sweden's Prime Minister had toppled, bank clerks were committing suicide, and King Gustaf's brother, a heavy Kreuger investor, had to move to humbler lodgings. In May, Pope Pius XI gave the Kreuger legend its epitaph by issuing an encyclical, Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by the Charity of Christ), the gist of which was: "The i love of money is the root of all evils...
...Pope in modern history has so persistently cultivated the universality of the Roman Catholic Church as Pius XII, and no Pope since the church began has seen and been seen by so many people...