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Cardinal Kinsley, Britain's only Cardinal and the Archbishop of Westminster, died last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...nominate Pope Pius XII...
...York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Spellman got back to the U.S. last August from a 46,000-mile visit to 34 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, thousands of U.S. fighting men, Pope Pius XII, practically every top-flight Allied statesman and military leader, and Generalissimo Franco, and promptly published the highlights of his trip in Collier...
...Italian Communists are concerned, the Pope can stay. In the new Italy, the Italian Communist Party agreed last week, Pius XII can remain "if the people wish it-we have nothing against him." But, added the Communists, "many of the Cardinals are Fascists." They also proposed to "separate the Church from the State, admitting the Church only to the exercise of religious functions from its seat in Rome...
...scene when Assassin Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt in Miami in 1933. Result: a memorable picture of fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. Of all the U.S. photographers who tried, Sammy alone got into Rome's St. Peter's in 1939 for Pope Pius XII's coronation...