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Your Fra Angelico-a bright miniature, somewhat lacking in composition and perspective. Have your writer read the tribute Pius XII paid the angelic Fra back in April. Angelico was more than a luminous knothole on the renaissance or a polychrome peephole on the Gospel. He was a window on Heaven. TIME brought us to the window, but a murky pane gave us a dim view of the wholeness, harmony, radiance beyond...
...Christmas greeting to the world, Pope Pius XII proposed a three-point disarmament plan, composed of: 1) banning nuclear tests, 2) renouncing the use of nuclear weapons, and 3) establishing an armament control system. After running the Pope's proposals through the propaganda mill, the Communist press exploited the first two points, which the Soviet Union favors, and ignored the third, which the U.S. considers essential. (Part of the U.S. press, by failing to read carefully the Pope's intricate prose, distorted his message almost as much as did the Communists.) Last week, the Voice of America acclaimed...
...Newscaster Richard T. Sutcliffe, associate director of press, radio & television for the United Lutheran Church in Amer ica, broadcast his list of the ten top religious news stories of 1955: 1) the illness, recovery and vision of Pope Pius XII, 2) Christian missionaries released by Red China, 3) Evangelist Billy Graham's sweep of Western Europe, 4) Dictator Peron's "failure to choke Argentine Roman Catholics," 5) Princess Margaret's stand for the "indissolubility" of Christian marriage, 6) Lutheran heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision...
Richard Sorge left private misery and public ruin in his spoor; history may remember him for a bitter, accidental play on words. His name in German spells "sorrow." As Sorge went about his dreadful career, Pope Pius XI was preparing his famous German-language encyclical against totalitarianism, whose opening words are: "Mit brennender Sorge [With burning sorrow...
...fork into an Italian macaroni company. On the tines of her suit: Maria's ex-physician and husband's brother-in-law, Dr. Giovanni Cazzarolli, the Pastificio Pantanella Co. and Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, who is Pastificio's legal eagle as well as a nephew of Pope Pius XII. La Callas, 31, weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed by the pasta firm in ads, stating that she had shed an unsvelte 44 Ibs. by gobbling quantities of Pastificio Pantanella's dietetic, "no-cal" macaroni. Maria fumed...