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Liberalization of the hidebound Spanish church seemed to get strong backing last week from Pope Pius XII. In a speech that sounded like an endorsement of Spain's liberal, fast-increasing Opus Dei organization (TIME. March 18), the Pope urged a group of newly ordained Spanish priests to foster a "higher grade of generous catholicity" and to incorporate the church "more and more resolutely in those currents of mutual cooperation in which many persons today see the future and salvation of the world." He reminded them that Spain, "although placed in a corner of this old Europe, is conscious...
...their second morning in Rome Nixon and wife Pat headed for the Vatican, as Italian photographers chased them along shouting: "Hey, Mr. Nixon, look this way!" Quaker Nixon had a 25-minute private session with 81-year-old Pope Pius XII, then the rest of his party joined him to hear the Pope read a personal message to the Americans...
After the Civil War the new movement found itself opposed by ultra-conservative Spanish Catholicism as well as by the Jesuits, but in 1947 Pope Pius XII gave Opus Dei official recognition, and the group established headquarters in Rome...
...Speaking to Lenten preachers, priests and seminarians, Pope Pius XII condemned the sexy art work that enlivens Roman walls. "To choose only one recent case," he said, "an important daily newspaper gave a highly colored description of two huge licentious posters . . . Who can tell what ruin in souls, especially those of youngsters, such images may provoke, how many dirty thoughts and feelings they may produce . . . ?" Within a few days a brigade of poster men were out with their buckets and brushes covering the life-large posters of buxom Cinemactress Marisa Allasio...
...household of His Eminence, Cardinal Belloro, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The cardinal is not far from being a Renaissance figure. He does not care much for the unceremonious style of modern cardinals like New York's Spellman ("the American Pope"). He savagely attacks Pius XII, whose order curtailing the length of cardinals' trains by one half annoys him, and he is inclined to sarcastic shoptalk about the business of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, e.g., the authentication of relics and miracles, the litigation and expenses involved in canonization. Yet for all his apparently worldly...