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...would be one of the top candidates for the papacy. This week Msgr. Montini was consecrated Archbishop of Milan, and when His Holiness presented the archbishop-elect a pectoral cross, a gift not normally made until after the ceremony, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano noted this demonstration of "very particular benevolence." Montini's consecration was cli maxed by a four-minute recorded speech of affection and blessing by the Pope...
Last week Romano Barberis of Milan and Paolo Scanzoni of Rome, who worked out Filtravox, were happily sure that they had filled a long-felt need. Since Osserva-tore's announcement on Nov. 10, they have been getting phone calls, letters and orders for the panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when...
...just a short notice in Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. "A hygienic acoustic device for confessors," it read, "has met with . . . great praise. It is a patented pigeonhole called Filtravox, usually rectangular in shape, but capable of being applied to any opening in the confessional. Confessors have too often been exposed to the bad breath of penitents, who may even be ill ... The airtight membrane of this device protects the confessors from contagious germs...
Worries for Sociologists. The World Congress on Population, meeting at Rome under the auspices of theU.N., was greeted by a blast from the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denouncing birth control and other curbs on population. The Congress, nevertheless, discussed not only the increase of man's numbers, but also what might be done about...
...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...