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...whom he muzzled in short order. Between 1935 and 1945, he served several terms as board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the potent policy-forming association of bishops that acts as the primary voice of the church in the U.S. No one was surprised when Pope Pius XII gave Archbishop Mooney a red hat at the 1946 consistory. Under his leadership, the Catholic population of Detroit doubled-from...
...Lonely Men. What considerations guided the cardinals as they assembled to make their choice will probably never be known, for no conclave in the history of the church has been bound by such rigid rules of secrecy. Author of the rules was the late Pope Pius XII himself; in his 1945 constitution, most recent of only 29 papal decrees in almost 1,000 years on conclave procedure, he ordered that the cardinals maintain absolute secrecy not only during the conclave, as heretofore, but afterwards as well. Pius XII banned from the conclave all "telegraph instruments, telephones, microphones, radios, cameras...
Pope Pius XII was a gracious man who met the 20th century publicity attending his office with tolerance and sophistication. At his investiture in 1939, the flashbulbs of news photographers flared for the first time inside St. Peter's Basilica. During his reign, he must surely have learned of the longstanding system under which the Vatican press corps hired-and even bribed-tipsters (usually laymen) on the papal staff. When, a few years ago, the papal physician peddled pictures of his patient down on the floor doing pushups, the Pope-with a grace few men could have mustered-forgave...
Prepaid Signal. While Pius XII lay dying inside the cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope...
...Pope is definitely a pastoral type," as opposed to the more politically interested Pius XII, stated Christopher C. Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies. "A new Pope is not like a new political party brought into power, however," observed Fr. Rafael Porras, Advisor to Catholic Students in the University...