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...hard-shelled, bone-picking mood last week were 6,000 delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla. In a "pronouncement on religious liberty," the Convention protested against: 1) Roosevelt's sending Joseph P. Kennedy as his personal representative to the coronation of Pope Pius XII; 2) adjourning Congress at the death of Pius XI; 3) "the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services."* Three Southern Senators signed the protest: North Carolina's Bailey, Georgia's George, Kentucky's Logan...
...Rome of a bright spring morning. A vast, good-humored mob filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...
...after the election of Pope Pius XII last March, lumbering, untidy, gentle-hearted Heywood Broun wrote a respectful column in which he said...
...priest, made him the first U. S. Roman Catholic bishop ever consecrated in St. Peter's Basilica. The bishop was Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, whom the Pope had appointed Auxiliary to William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston. This week Eugenio Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, appointed Bishop Spellman to be Archbishop of the 1,000,000-odd Catholics of the see of New York, vacant since last September...
...these things, Vittorio Emmanuele III has several times been rumored on the point of abdication. Last week correspondents learned that when the mild little King heard of Premier Mussolini's plans to invade Albania, he sent Crown Prince Umberto to call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor of his son, Italy might stand a better chance...