Word: vatican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking in the Vatican palace to the Italian League Against Excessive Noise, Pope Pius XII pleased his listeners by roundly condemning needless decibels. Said His Holiness: "Silence is beneficial not only to sanity, nervous equilibrium and intellectual labor but also helps man to live a life that reaches to the depths and the heights ... It definitely helps an effort toward an interior life, and it is in silence that God's mysterious voice is best heard...
Professional censors are cautious enough; the Vatican's Index contains surprisingly few titles.*But U.S. Catholics, says Kerr, have "dozens of 'little Indexes' that pursue them from the pages of diocesan newspapers, devotional magazines, magazines created especially for the purpose of giving moral ratings to 'bestsellers,' and-finally-from the lips of well-meaning Catholic neighbors ... A few seasons ago a New York playgoer who took his Catholic magazine listings to heart would have felt free to see exactly one legitimate entertainment-Howdy...
Cardinal Mindszenty may be a hero to millions of Roman Catholics, and non-Catholics as well, but many Vatican insiders are currently critical of him. Their complaint: his "very definite lack of prudence." First count against him: allowing himself to be photographed saying Mass in the U.S. legation close to an American flag. Second: assigning his aide, Msgr. Egon Turchanyi, to smuggle out of Hungary a message for U.S. Cardinal Spellman. Father Turchanyi-who was also in the legation photograph and clearly identifiable-was caught at the Austrian border and imprisoned by the Reds. Both the flag episode...
...continued rebellion in Hun gary, the Vatican deplores it. "Whatever the consequences," said a spokesman, "the Pope and Vatican cannot but feel deepest anguish at the continuing bloodshed...
...Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, boldly attacked PAX. Later, the Vatican proscribed PAX's newspaper and a book by Piasecki which called Communism the true Christianity. When Gomulka returned to power last October, many PAX leaders hastily and publicly repudiated it. The total failure of PAX to split Poland's Catholic leadership was a measure of how grossly the Soviets had underestimated the vitality of the Polish church...