Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weary-eyed, a little rumpled and sniffling from a cold caught somewhere between Athens and Rome, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Daniel Murphy eased his 6 ft. 2 in. gratefully into a seat in Columbine III. Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the historic trip just ending; rushed to the Middle East 29 days before, Murphy had traveled 18,575 miles, visited nine Middle East and European nations, in Lebanon alone met 45 times with government and rebel leaders. When Diplomat Murphy finished talking, his friend on the Columbine leaned toward...
...professional. The U.S. was interested in the doings of rising young Rabble Rouser Adolf Hitler. Murphy reported that Hitler was simply too loony to be dangerous. Among the diplomatic observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope Pius XII: "Now Robert, wait a minute. Don't you even mention papal infallibility. That was long before I became Pope...
Such consecrations are valid because by definition a bishop has the power to create other bishops-a power which, in Catholic doctrine, is transmitted in unbroken line from the apostles themselves. But no bishop may exert jurisdiction over a diocese without specific appointment from Rome. China's new "progressive" bishops are therefore subject to excommunication...
Daily Lesson. So far, Rome's response has been gentle. Having no lines of communication with its captive flock in China, Vatican officials explain, the church cannot distinguish clearly between Chinese priests forced to collaborate under extreme duress and those who merely succumb to ambition...
...winners (see color page), unanimously chosen by a three-man jury:* first prize ($1,500), Manhattan Abstractionist John Ferren, 52, for his The Birches; second ($750), Social Realist Semyon Shimin, 55, for his Discussion Groups-Rome, sketched in Rome during the 1956 elections but finished in Manhattan; and third ($250), Milton Goldring, 40, also a New Yorker, for his Shadow and Substance. The predominant tone of the festival is abstract expressionist, and imitative of the leaders of that movement...