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...from an unexpected source. Pope Pius XII, said L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper, had personally intervened in the Rosenberg case, had asked the President for clemency. In the labyrinthine phrases of L'Osservatore (which are all but unintelligible to most Americans), it appeared that the Pontiff had appealed directly to Eisenhower. "As he has mercifully done in other similar cases," said L'Osservatore, "so also in this one he has not failed to intervene insofar as it was permitted to him in the absence of any official relations with the competent [U.S.] Government authorities...
...unity" include Protestants? Yes, to the extent that the Vatican welcomes anti-Communist activity in any quarter. But there remained the ancient catch. The Church of Rome's price of real Christian unity remains the same: all Christians must "render due homage to the primacy of the Roman Pontiff...
...declaration of Chinese Catholics' essential patriotism. Catholicism, he said, had been a good thing for China. Surprised and pleased, the Catholics drew up a statement supporting the ultimate aim of an all-Chinese clergy, "but only under the authority of, and in union with, the Supreme Pontiff of Rome, since without that the Church in China would cease to be Catholic...
...shabby courtroom* in the little town of Chieti last week, Laura Diaz, a young (30), comely Communist, stood charged with the crime of having publicly insulted the Pope. Under the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Vatican and the Italian government, ratified in the republican constitution, insults to the reigning Pontiff are punishable by imprisonment or fine. The prosecution charged that at a 1948 electoral meeting in Ortona, Laura Diaz had said that the Pope's "hands dripped with the blood of the children of Greece and Palestine" because the Pope had not prevented wars in those countries and that...
...call themselves Christians submit to the authority of the Roman Church, they say, and the unity of Christendom will thereby be established. And again Protestants cannot agree. The Bible and the conscience of the individual soul, they believe, are higher and more trustworthy authorities than any pontiff, any single church...