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...Religion tells of a German play that is stirring up controversy in four European cities, arguing that the late Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of Jews. It seemed to us not enough merely to note the accusation and the acrimony, and we set out to look into how and why the Pope behaved...
...Josef Beran a tough opponent. Son of a schoolteacher, he served 15 years as a parish priest before becoming a teacher at Prague's Charles University in 1927. Beran was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, spent nearly three years at the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Prague...
...Popes have always responded, each in his own way. The languid Leo X of the Renaissance grandly received his subjects on horseback while at the hunt, and Pius IX had his own railway car to make whistlestop visits through the papal states. The general audiences of the ascetic Pius XII were like an encounter with a saint. John XXIII's were folksy-until sickness and duty made him give them up. The mood of Pope Paul's audiences is somewhere in between, and they draw unprecedented throngs to St. Peter's every Wednesday morning, sometimes Saturday...
...Marta, gradually filling the church. Surrounded by halberd-bearing Swiss Guards, borne high above the crowd on a portable chair, Pope Paul VI bobbed toward the high altar. He looked small and frail beneath his white robes and heavy red stole; his soft, graceful gestures reminded many of Pius XII. "I was very fond of John, but Paul looks more like a Pope should," an Italian student said...
...mostly about the quest for an enduring world peace. Addressing the Kennedy party later, the Pope recalled that he had met the President and his family at a papal audience 25 years ago, when, as Monsignor Montini, he was Substitute Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs to Pope Pius XII. Paul praised the U.S. and-in a highly topical note-wished well the forces seeking equality for the Negro...