Word: vagnozzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed a new Apostolic Delegate to the U.S.-the Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, 52, who has served as papal envoy to the Philippines since 1949. Archbishop Vagnozzi, the son of a Roman clerk, spent virtually all his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, has also had experience in the U.S. as secretary to the Apostolic Delegation from 1932 to 1942. In the U.S. post, Vagnozzi succeeds Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, whose new duties include posts in three of the Sacred Congregations...
...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...
...have attacked Father Hogan. (Said a Manila newspaperman "They would be fighting the Pope him self.") Fortnight ago, however, after thi archbishop had left for Rome on a visit they had their first try. Eugenio Lopez publisher of the Manila Chronicle and ; wealthy friend of Figueras', editorially accused Vagnozzi of "arrogence and condescension" toward the Philippine government. Next day, in the Philippini Congress, Representative Estanislao Fernandez introduced a resolution calling for the recall of Vagnozzi for his "notoriously unsympathetic attitude toward the Filipino people...
...resolution is expected to get no where in Congress. But it drew angry replies from active Catholic Filipinos. The church's official newspaper, the Sentinel published a statement by the entire Phil ippine hierarchy protesting the attacks or Vagnozzi. The Sentinel editorialized: "The local Bourbons, who could not directly attack the progressive labor movement of the Catholic Church, have found a scape goat in the person of the nuncio...
...Many Filipinos felt sure that Father Hogan's action was not an individual protest; they thought that the P.A.L. dispute might grow into a major rift between the church and the Philippine government. Manila remembered an eloquent address last fall to Catholic lay leaders in which Apostolic Delegate Vagnozzi had exhorted "the wealthy people [and] businessmen...