Word: popes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope Pius XII passed his 73rd birthday and his tenth year as Pontiff, hard at work, made no official observance of the occasion...
Citing recent statements of both Stalin and the Pope to back his thesis, Reinhold Niebuhr, noted professor at the Union Theological Seminary, cautioned a standing-room-only congregation at Memorial Church yesterday of the dangers of "spiritual wickedness in high places...
Stalin, said Niebuhr, has maintained that all communist actions are correct because they are founded on absolute truths derived from science. At the other extreme, Pope Plus XII stated two weeks ago that the actions of the Church had validity because they were based on spiritual and never on worldly considerations...
...trial of the cardinal was farcical, and a very hollow pretense of a just trial. The thing I noticed is that the Pope excommunicated everyone connected with the trial, without even a pretense at giving a trial to them...
...Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week's end, the bishops had not given their answer. But in Rome, the Pope once more sweepingly denounced Mindszenty's jailers and warned Catholics of the dangers inherent in subservience to totalitarian states...