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...Pius had many divisions. We of the Free World will sorely miss the comfort and real power of his moral force. (I am a Lutheran...
...ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, that in 1926, at the age of 44, Mooney was made a titular archbishop and appointed apostolic delegate, first to India and later to Japan-the first American to have a permanent high-ranking Vatican diplomatic post...
...priest, whom he muzzled in short order. Between 1935 and 1945, he served several terms as board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the potent policy-forming association of bishops that acts as the primary voice of the church in the U.S. No one was surprised when Pope Pius XII gave Archbishop Mooney a red hat at the 1946 consistory. Under his leadership, the Catholic population of Detroit doubled-from...
...Lonely Men. What considerations guided the cardinals as they assembled to make their choice will probably never be known, for no conclave in the history of the church has been bound by such rigid rules of secrecy. Author of the rules was the late Pope Pius XII himself; in his 1945 constitution, most recent of only 29 papal decrees in almost 1,000 years on conclave procedure, he ordered that the cardinals maintain absolute secrecy not only during the conclave, as heretofore, but afterwards as well. Pius XII banned from the conclave all "telegraph instruments, telephones, microphones, radios, cameras...
...Pope Pius XII was a gracious man who met the 20th century publicity attending his office with tolerance and sophistication. At his investiture in 1939, the flashbulbs of news photographers flared for the first time inside St. Peter's Basilica. During his reign, he must surely have learned of the longstanding system under which the Vatican press corps hired-and even bribed-tipsters (usually laymen) on the papal staff. When, a few years ago, the papal physician peddled pictures of his patient down on the floor doing pushups, the Pope-with a grace few men could have mustered-forgave...