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When Steel Tycoon Taylor was first accredited to Rome at Christmas 1939, the purposes were obvious: 1) to help Pope and President pursue (in the Roosevelt phrase) "parallel endeavors for peace" during the "phony war"; 2) to tune in on the reports Pius XII got from his diplomatic corps, then the best in Europe. But today Hitler's armies have packed most of the papal legates back to Rome, and the Vatican, with many more Catholics living under the swastika, has become more and more neutral while the U.S. grew more and more belligerent...
Increasing Axis pressure is making the Pope much more truly "the Prisoner of the Vatican" than his predecessors were from 1870 to 1929. The Vatican radio and the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano are now on an almost exclusive diet of non-controversial items. If Hitler wins, Pius XII may face as unpleasant an ordeal as Pius VII, whom Napoleon hustled away from Rome and kept a prisoner in France from...
...Pope Pius XII turned his back on pacifism. "Although war is horrifying," he told 3,000 pilgrims, "it cannot be denied that it reveals the greatness of many heroic souls, who sacrifice their lives to carry out the duties imposed by Christian conscience...
...archbishop took to the radio last Sunday to denounce a fellow member of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. It was another example of how strong feeling on the war is beginning to run, for the target of the broadcast was a nationwide radio speech made July 6 by Pope Pius XII's friend and former assistant at the Vatican, Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley of St. Augustine...
...Pope Pius XII gave up his customary summer rest in his Alban Hills villa of Castel Gandolfo, but moved into the head gardener's cottage in the Vatican gardens in hope of finding relief from the Roman heat...