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...argument is based mainly on the fact that there is no contemporary evidence to support the ugly charges against Richard. What the world knows comes from Sir Thomas More's History of Richard III. Most people have long assumed that Sir Thomas (who was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935) was an on-the-spot reporter, but historians know that More was only seven years old when Richard was killed at Bosworth and that he took his information from one John Morton, who became Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry...
...Vatican revealed that, in response to requests from all over Italy, Pope Pius has proclaimed St. Cassianus of Imola the patron saint of Italian stenographers. Legendary martyrdom of St. Cassianus (dates uncertain), who taught writing: stabbing by the pens of his students when he refused to worship Roman gods...
...Catholics in politics sometimes sound like old Senator Tom Heflin lobbing one of his Confederate cannonballs at "the Pope of Rome" Not until the birth (in 1910) of the political party now led by Alcide de Gasperi were Catholics of modern Italy free to participate in politics. Under Pius IX's 1868 Non Expedit decree (it is not expedient), a Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy...
Almost fully recovered from his long bout of winter illness, Pope Pius XII was back last week at his hard-working routine. He was up in the morning at 6:30, and often the light in his study above St. Peter's Square was burning at midnight. Yet Eugenio Pacelli, still as slim and erect as a brigadier in the 15th year of his reign, is also in the 78th year of his life, and so, among Rome's churchmen, the talk is of his successor...
...remind Mr. Allen that Pope Pius XII is considered infallible only in matters concerning faith and morals. Also, that the great majority of "400 million people" are in no position to dictate the economic and military policies of their ravaged countries, but must wait hopefully and pray that the new President's Administration will restore their dignity and fill their stomachs...