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...Acts of the Apostles unhelpfully has it, "to another place." Catholics say that his final destination was indubitably Rome. They add that St. Peter took the leadership of the church with him, and that he was crucified there during the persecutions of Nero. In 1951, in fact, Pope Pius XII announced that the site of Peter's grave had been definitely located during excavations beneath St. Peter...
After a visit to Pope Pius XII, Cardinals Feltin of Paris, Lieénart of Lille and Gerlier of Lyon announced a conditional reprieve for the French worker-priest program recently suspended by the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 28). Hereafter, worker-priests will be attached to parishes or traditional communities of priests, will no longer work full time at secular jobs-thus minimizing the chance that some of them, living by themselves in Red-tinted industrial areas, will be led astray by the Communism they set out to fight...
...Plan of the week : a Pope Pius XII memorial library, containing in microfilm the 50,000 manuscript volumes of the Vatican, to be built at a cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 on the campus of St. Louis University...
...encyclical letter titled Fulgens Corona (The Radiant Crown), Pope Pius XII proclaimed the year 1954 (from December 1953 to December 1954) a Marian Year, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...
...geneticists attending an international congress in Rome, Pope Pius XII last week reasserted the Christian priority of the individual above the group...