Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacancies & Rumors. Vatican customs have by no means changed; Pius XII makes known no more of his plans for consistories and red hats than did Julius III. But this week, as the 73-year-old Pope began a three-week rest period, there were rumors aplenty that a new batch of cardinals would be created before year's end. Reasons: 1) papal tradition designates December (during Advent) as the most appropriate time for creating new cardinals; 2) the Pope will probably be calling a consistory in December anyway, in connection with the ceremonies inaugurating the Holy Year...
...dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent Vatican decree of excommunication (TIME, July...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
...mine, even if I am a Baptist. [Times Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger told the Pope that . . . there was not a chance I would be in the White House after Jan. 20." When the election was over, the President added, the Pope asked Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, how the head of a great newspaper could waste a half hour "in so misrepresenting the facts...
...wooden table in an austere schoolroom sat nine men: an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Indian, a Norwegian, a Czech, two Germans, and two Americans. Their debate was on a major matter: What should the Protestant churches do about the Communist attack on religious freedom in Eastern Europe? (For the Vatican's stand on the same question, see INTERNATIONAL...