Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that most Catholics in the U.S. are loyal Americans, but we Protestants who live in Italy under "democracy" as dictated by the Vatican are inclined to side with Kirby...
...Doubtful Reader" was referring to the unusual Vatican annulment of the President's first marriage, which let him marry Lima Socialite Clorinda Málaga a fortnight ago (TIME, June 30). In a country famed for its firmness in the Catholic faith, the second marriage stirred a storm -the noisier because the citizens were not told the ground for the annulment...
...church suggesting that Prado had been forced into his first marriage? Without answering that question, a Vatican spokesman in Rome certified that the Peruvian President's grown children are not illegitimate, since they had been "sired in good faith." He conceded that the Prado case got "extremely rare" Vatican consideration. Instead of passing the decision of Lima's ecclesiastical marriage court to the Sacred Roman Rota for final action as is customary, the Pope appointed a special committee of cardinals to review Lima's decision. The deliberations took "several years." In the end, the cardinals' committee...
...youngest, most brilliant and most cosmopolitan cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
...with a simple biretta. But with his special experience in Russian affairs and in the intricate network of relationships in the Communist-infiltrated Middle East, his new position at the helm of the Roman Catholic missionary movement makes him one of the most potent and important men in the Vatican. Last week the Pope conferred a further honor on Cardinal Agagianian-naming him to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, most important of the Holy See's twelve administrative bodies, whose prefect is the Pope himself...