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ROBERT E. LOWY Chicago Sir: . . . Pope Pius XII...
...Church of England Newspaper last week looked hard at Pope Pius XII's prayer to the Virgin Mary, composed for the opening of the Marian Year (TIME, Dec. 14), and found in it implications of "rank heresy...
...very difficult to forecast your possible selection this year, because no outstanding figure emerged during the year. Eisenhower, Brownell, McCarthy, Adenauer, Pope Pius XII (he is always in the running because the Roman Catholic Church does most to counteract Communism), Malenkov, Truman, and the ghost of Harry Dexter White are all possible selections . . . Somehow, I can already see Joe McCarthy's face staring at me from your first issue...
...perceived, like Marx, that the key to the Western World was the worker. In his famed social encyclical, Rerum Novarum, Leo proclaimed the worker's inalienable right to a decent living, the employer's duty to provide it, and the right of both to private property. Pius XII has reasserted Leo XIII's line. In 1945, he approved (reluctantly) the daring social experiment of the French worker-priests...
...This week, after the ceremonies in Santa Maria Maggiore, the Pope appeared on the balcony of the church before the great crowd, and stretching out his arms, he spoke his blessing urbi et orbi-to the city and to the world. It was more than a traditional phrase. Pius XII is part of his city, as he is part of his Church. But he has also shown for all the world a deep feeling that is above its theological and political dividing lines...