Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursue a policy of persecution and coercion with regard to the Catholic Church?" Stalin: "As an advocate of the freedom of conscience and of worship, I consider such a policy to be inadmissible and precluded." Father Orlemanski: "Do you think that the cooperation with the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, in the matter of struggle against coercion and persecution of the Catholic Church is possible?" Stalin: "I think it is possible." Stalin then signed the two written questions, gave Father Orlemanski permission to make them public...
...They might also remember that last September Dr. Garbett had taken a long trip in the opposite direction-to Moscow, to give the hand of traditional ecumenical brotherhood to Russia's newly reinstated Patriarch. (Last week Patriarch Sergei gave the back of his hand to Pius XII, declared, in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, that the Pope is not Christ's Vicar on earth...
Pope Pius XII, speaking from the balcony of St. Peter's, appealed to "the clear sightedness and wisdom of responsible men on both sides [to spare] Rome, this noble city which belongs to all times and all places." Destruction of Rome, he said, would be an "act as inglorious militarily as it is abominable in the eyes of God and humanity...
...paintings in outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
...Nazis did not shut down Radio Vaticana. Speaking in Italian, from the modern station on the highest terrace of the Vatican Hill, Pius XII addressed a 39-minute Christmas message to the world...