Word: xii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
VATICAN CITY-Pope Plus XII in a 21-minute homily broadcast to the world today made the strongest peace appeal he has voiced since the war began...
...seasoned broadcaster himself, Pope Pius XII received Rome's radio announcers, admonished them sagely and piously: "You have a powerful voice which reaches the four corners of the world. Let us hope that voice will always speak words of truth, enlightenment and love." Refereeing his first labor fight (by court appointment as an arbitrator), Jack Dempsey, ex-heavyweight champion and Manhattan restaurateur, gave 27 office workers a 10% pay raise, a 40-hour week, time-and-a-half overtime, a modified closed shop...
Along the marble walls of vast, echoing St. Peter's, Rome, Vatican engineers last week strung the wires for 40 loudspeakers, so that the 40,000 Catholic faithful who jam the Pope's basilica on high festivals may hear his voice. Pius XII will first use the new system on Nov. 24, when he will say a special Mass for peace, to be followed by a world-wide broadcast...
Last week Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, paid a farewell call on Pope Pius XII, and left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
Only other American who has ever served in the Vatican's Secretariate of State is round-faced, able Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, who was attached to the Secretariate seven years-serving the last two under Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII), who was Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman knows the Pope better than any other U. S. Catholic. Last week the Archbishop was luncheon host to Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie. Said the delighted Mr. Willkie: "We had a stimulating and fine talk-I can't say anything more than that." Archbishop Spellman said nothing...