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...than do the S.A.O. terrorists. The prefect of Oran hides in an apartment on the top floor of a 15-story building that can be reached only by taking two separate elevators and passing through a complicated maze of locked and guarded doors. The prefect of Algiers and his staff dodge from one hiding place to another, frequently changing cars and routes. The top Gaullist administrators have abandoned Algiers and huddle together at Le Rocher Noir, 25 miles away, behind three rings of barbed wire, defended by armored cars. S.A.O. spies are everywhere. Last fall, the French government sent...
...born in the small central Italian town of Brisighella, where his widowed mother ran a general store to support her two sons. Both of them became priests and distinguished themselves in Vatican affairs. Pope Pius XI sent Amleto to the U.S. as apostolic delegate in 1933. Brother Gaetano, now Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites at the Vatican, was made a cardinal in 1953-In Washington, Cicognani began his day at 6 a.m. and expected his associates to do the same. He delivered more than 4,000 speeches, consecrated 56 U.S. bishops, and ordained 800 priests. He became known...
Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...
University of Notre Dame Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, Roman Catholic, Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith LL.D...
...situations. Best guesses are that at least two of the three secret cardinals are actually Vatican officials. Pope John is keeping their names secret in order to hold them to their present assignments (which they would have to give up if publicly appointed). Most likely candidates: Monsignor Enrico Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor...