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...Pius XII is the only Pope who has ever set foot in the U.S. He has learned to lean on it in many ways, from cash to idealism. He showed both his knowledge and his dependence in selecting the four new American cardinals...
...said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome. He may become Vatican Secretary of State...
This prayer for a united Christendom was repeated last week by Pope Pius XII. With the same prayer the Council of Trent in 1563 had closed its 18-year deliberations to combat the schism born of Martin Luther's theses nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. The Council failed to bring Protestant heretics back to the fold...
Bishop Dutoit and Auvity evidently felt duty-bound to resign from their dioceses. Last week, Pipe Pius XII accepted both resignations. Many in religious circles saw in the action the beginnings of a long-awaited "purge" of collaborationist clergymen. The New York Times predicted : "About 20 prelates are expected to be affected...
Relations between the Vatican and Belgrade have been shaky since Marshal Tito rose to power. A recent letter to Pope Pius XII from the Yugoslav Episcopate made them even worse. The letter accused the Tito Government of closing Catholic schools, suppressing all Catholic newspapers and substituting civil marriages for religious ceremonies. Since the war's end. the letter added, 243 Yugoslav priests had been killed, 169 imprisoned...