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Because of sketchy records and the questionable validity of some papal elections, Pius XII will probably never know whether he is the 256th successor to St. Peter or the 260th - or somewhere in between...
...Japan MacArthur, ruling through an ex-god, was trying one of the boldest experiments in human history; but 1946 gave little hint of how his attempt to remake a whole people would come out. Throughout 1946 Pope Pius XII had been a symbol of Western civilization's resistance to the rule of materialism; but the Communists, unlike the mountains, would not be moved by faith; the struggle that engaged the Pope was fought currently in the field of politics. For a time it looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong...
...under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became one of the world...
...Stepinac left the witness stand after his 38-minute address, Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of Saint Augustine, Fla., representing Pope Pius XII at the trial, bowed before him; Catholics all over the world, recalling that a Soviet death sentence against Leningrad Archbishop John Cieplak in 1923 had been commuted under pressure of world opinion, were rallying to Stepinac's side. Summoned to Rome to coordinate protests were pink-cheeked, rosy Msgr. Angelo Roncalli of Paris; Lancashire-born Archbishop William Godfrey, apostolic delegate to Britain; Dutch national hero Cardinal de Jong. Commented Pope Pius: ". . . We have the right...
Thin, alabaster-pale Father John Baptist Janssens, new General of the Society of Jesus (TIME, Sept. 23), paid a formal call upon his Holy Father at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban hills. Said Pius XII...