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...busiest spots in Rome since the Allies entered the city five weeks ago has been Vatican City, the only sovereign state no bigger than an 18-hole golf course. One of its busiest persons has been Pope Pius XII,* who has granted audiences to more than 25,000 United Nations servicemen & women...
...Pius XII upset Vatican tradition, turned a new papal face to the world last week...
...Pius XII evidently remembered some of the things he had learned about the press when as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli he toured the U.S. (1936). Soon after their unique session last week, newsmen heard that the Vatican would open a pressroom. The Vatican was missing no legitimate opportunity to put its case for peace before the world...
...fall of Rome, Pope Pius XII spoke to the College of Cardinals on a matter close to his heart. Clothing his thought in undulant papal prose, he begged the Allies to reconsider their stated war aim: unconditional surrender. Said he, in part...
...pursue a policy of persecution and coercion with regard to the Catholic Church?" Stalin: "As an advocate of the freedom of conscience and of worship, I consider such a policy to be inadmissible and precluded." Father Orlemanski: "Do you think that the cooperation with the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, in the matter of struggle against coercion and persecution of the Catholic Church is possible?" Stalin: "I think it is possible." Stalin then signed the two written questions, gave Father Orlemanski permission to make them public...