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...statesmen talked peace at Hyde Park in the autumn of 1936. One was gaunt, dark-eyed Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of State. The other was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last year Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Last Christmas President Roosevelt, striving to halt World War II, recalled their talk of peace on earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world...
...French bishops Pope Pius XII fortnight ago sent a letter, in which he spoke to quasi-fascist France as kindly as he did to the Polish hierarchy and faithful last autumn. The Pope predicted that God would "bring about reawakening of the entire nation." Last week the Vatican let it be known that negotiations for a new concordat were "progressing satisfactorily" with Germany, thanks to Nazi approval of the patriotic loyalty of German Catholics since World War II began...
...sure sign of the Vatican's attempt to do business as usual is its dickering with Germany. As Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII negotiated the German-Vatican concordat of 1933. The Nazis have violated it ever since. Recently the Vatican began trying to clarify the future status of apostolic nunciatures at The Hague and Brussels, the future of German Catholics, the position of Catholics in Austria and Czechoslovakia. But there was a significant omission : relief for the worst persecuted Catholics of all, those in the German slice of Poland. In the interests of diplomacy the Vatican appears willing...
Married. Marchese Giulio Pacelli, son of the late Marchese Francesco Pacelli who had a hand in the negotiations leading up to the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican in 1929; and 'Signorina Piera Bombrini; in Vatican City. Officiating at the ceremony was Pope Pius XII, formerly Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli, uncle of the groom...
...eldest son of Edsel Bryant Ford, grandson and namesake of Motor Manufacturer Henry Ford; in Southampton, L. I. Born a Protestant, the groom was tutored in the Catholic faith and married by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fulton John Sheen, who at the conclusion of the ceremony announced: "Pope Pius XII sends his apostolic blessing to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II." Among the 600 guests: the Harvey Firestone Jr.'s, William S. Knudsens, John F. Crosbys, former Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, former New York Governor...