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...Above the hurly-burly of Sputniks, one man alone stands out. I'd give the nomination to Pope Pius XII...
...What happened when a Lutheran U.S. Senator got a little remembrance from Pope Pius XII? See PEOPLE...
Back from an overseas vacation, Washington's gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about to leave. He clutched a box containing a rosary, a souvenir of his visit. The Pope asked him to tarry a moment and asked: "Did you look at what is in the box?" Magnuson allowed that he had peeked. Quipped the most urbane of modern pontiffs: "Sometimes when I give...
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 24--Pope Pius XII said today a doctor legitimately may halt artificial respiration for a dying patient in some cases if the patient's family requests...
...nearly an hour last week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have...