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...Christmastime 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Pius XII: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction to send to you my personal representative in order that our parallel endeavors for peace and the alleviation of suffering may be assisted." The representative turned out to be 72-year-old ex-steel tycoon Myron Charles Taylor...
Pope Pius XII (of whom Stalin once scoffingly asked: "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?") had stated the issue on the eve of elections. The choice was between "the champions and the wreckers of Christianity." He warned against Communism, which promised man material security and then made him into "a soulless wheel...
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...
...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...
...before, in his Consistorial allocution, Pius XII emphasized the "supranational" character of the Church's spiritual empire, contrasted its view of man with the machinations of earthly empires. The Pope mentioned no nations as he deplored...