Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps in a half-dozen audiences granted by Pius XII to Francis Spellman, there had been talk of the possible adjustment of Allied "unconditional surrender" policy to the Vatican's desire for a stable, conservative, loyally Catholic Italy...
Over the puppet Paris radio the ingratiating voice of a "Dr. Friedrich"* gave a warped résumé of Vatican-German relations since the Concordat of 1933 was negotiated by Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII) and Franz von Papen...
Born. To the Marchese Giulio Pacelli and Signora Piera Bombrini Pacelli: a son, Eugenio; somewhere in Italy. His namesake and granduncle: Pope Pius XII...
...unprecedented low (49). Reason: the war has prevented many possible recipients of the red hat from traveling to the Vatican. Sometimes the Pope creates a Cardinal in petto (in the breast, i.e., he keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto when the American prelate was at the Vatican a month ago. Last week Archbishop Spellman flew from Algiers to Cardinal Hinsley's funeral...
President Roosevelt in 1939 recognized the Vatican's unique position in world diplomacy, sent retired Steelman Myron Taylor to Rome as the President's personal emissary to Pope Pius XII. Taylor since then has been three times to Rome...