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...Speaking to his first mass audience since his illness, and for the first time in three years well enough to deliver his traditional Lenten address in person, Pope Pius XII, 79, read a 20-minute allocution to 1,000 of Rome's parish priests, Lenten preachers and lay members of Catholic Action. Warning against disunity, impatience and excessive zeal in bringing lost and wavering souls back into the church, he urged them to "push souls gently but firmly towards Jesus." Later in the week the Pope showed his continued strength by participating in a 90-minute ceremony celebrating...
...Almost fully recovered from his recent illness, Pope Pius XII went for a ride in a transparent automobile. This car, the Pontiff's own idea, was built in Turin of crystal glass on a 1954 U.S. Chrysler chassis. Purpose: to let people see the Pope full-length, even in inclement weather (he feels that frequent public appearances are necessary to forestall rumors about his health...
Died. Charles Donagh Maginnis, 88, veteran U.S. designer and architect of ecclesiastical buildings, e.g., the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Knight of Malta by appointment (1945) of Pope Pius XII, twice (1937 and 1938) president of the American Institute of Architects; in Boston...
...message to the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists, Pope Pius XII reminded the lawyers that however hard it may be even for theologians to believe it, eternal punishment is a dogmatic fact. "Revelation and the teaching authority of the Church clearly establish that after the end of this earthly life, those who are burdened with grave guilt will receive from the Most High God a judgment and an execution of penalty from which there is no liberation or condonation. God could, in the next life, also remit such a punishment; everything depends on His free will; but He has never...
...formal science ofsilviculture began in France, after Leonardo da Vinci interested Louis XII in forestry...