Word: ruffini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punish Milazzo, and to regain dominance of Catholic Sicily, the Christian Democrats appealed to the Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York...
...decree was essentially a local one: in Sicily an aggressive, spectacled politico named Silvio Malazzo had broken away from the mainland Christian Democrats to lead an alliance of Christian Democrats, Communists, Socialists and Fascists. He is facing his first electoral test in June, and Sicily's Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini had asked the Vatican for ammunition...
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 70, Archbishop of Palermo, is noted for keen interest in science, inexperience in politics, and personal courage. Once when the famed Sicilian bandit Giuliano was terrorizing the countryside near Palermo, Ruffini walked out alone into the hills and cried: "Giuliano, I am your archbishop and I forbid you to kill...
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 65, Archbishop of Palermo. At 27, Ruffini was a professor of biblical introduction (interpretation of the Bible in the light of science, history and doctrine) at Rome's Gregorian University. He has since become one of the church's foremost educators and theologians. In 1944 he founded the Medical Biological Union of St. Luke, whose aim is to clarify Catholic doctrine in the field of medical science...
...scholarship, he is an effective and devoted pastor. When the bandit Giuliano (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949 et seq.) terrorized Ruffini's Palermo diocese so that hardly anyone dared go into the hills, Cardinal Ruffini left Palermo on foot and unaccompanied, walked up the stony hills toward Giuliano's lair and cried: "Giuliano, Giuliano, you are killing my flock, you are ruining their fields . . . Come and talk to me." After several hours waiting in the sun, when Giuliano still did not come, the cardinal gathered his vestments about him and cried aloud: "Giuliano. I am your archbishop...