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...Pius XII last week used his annual Christmas message to expound the Vatican's views on world politics. This was the first of six wartime Christmases at which Fascist guards have not stood ominously at every entrance of Vatican City. And this time, without giving democracy direct support,* the Pope clearly lined up the Roman Catholic Church with a democratic organization of the postwar world...
Pope Pius XII spoke wise words: "In this grave moment radio can exercise the work of cohesion among the people, reconciliation and love among all nations, but in the hands of perverse men it can also transform itself into an instrument of hatred and ruin...
...Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...
Pope Pius XII last week altered the U.S. Roman Catholic map, creating a new archdiocese (Indianapolis) and three new dioceses (Steubenville, Ohio; Lafayette and Evansville, Ind.). To be Archbishop of Indianapolis, he named the city's Bishop since 1934, kindly, tolerant Joseph Elmer Ritter...
...Pincers Close. From a line be tween Metz and Nancy, Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps had jumped off in midweek, behind an artillery barrage so heavy that, according to one correspondent, the firing sheets looked like railroad timetables. Next day 1,300 heavy bombers came. The weather was too bad for close support, but they dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Metz itself and on Saarbrücken...