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Although the Feast of the Assumption has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 7th Century, and the Assumption is one of the "glorious mysteries" on which Catholics meditate while saying the Rosary, this belief has never been pronounced a dogma. Informed sources now predict that Pius XII will do so next April 2-the 50th anniversary of his ordination...
...regular students (one-third English speaking, two-thirds French) and its staff (125 Oblate fathers, 21 nuns, 147 lay teachers) crowded on to the campus for the university's centenary. They put on a pageant, handed out honorary degrees to ten dignitaries, learned that Pope Pius XII had conferred an apostolic benediction on students and staff. They listened to tributes from visitors, heard Dr. Robert Wallace, principal of Queen's University in Kingston, say: "There are clearly two different philosophies of education in Canada . . . They rest partly in religious exclusiveness-on both sides-partly on language barriers...
Catholic University is also the only U.S. university whose rector must be approved by the Pope. Last May, Pope Pius XII confirmed the Rt. Rev. Msgr: Patrick J. McCormick, 67, for his second five-year term. The tall, austere priest has taught at C.U. for 37 years...
...Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster...
With his prosperity (he owns a 640,000-acre ranch in Arizona, supports 100 model farms from Maine to Wisconsin), Charlie Ward has also won prominence. He is a 32nd-Degree Mason. For his gifts to churches and charities, he has been commended by Pope Pius XII. He also remembers ex-convicts, gives a chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants...