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...archbishop had another piece of news for the conference. Next month he will travel to Formosa on assignment from Pope John XXIII-to re-establish in Taipei, and then to administer, the Catholic University of Fu-jen, formerly located in Peking. It will be the first time in more than ten years that the archbishop has been able to live under the Chinese flag...
...Communists, to whom the Vatican is anathema, rarely pass up a chance to remind their subjects of the dangers inherent in any contact with the Church of Rome. Sometimes the attacks are vicious, sometimes merely amusing. At the opening of the Olympic Games in Rome last week, Pope John XXIII welcomed an assembly of Olympians, including some athletes from Iron Curtain countries, to St. Peter's Square. "We hope," said His Holiness, "that this evening's happy event may reach into your hearts so that each of you may have a higher appreciation of an athlete...
Quick to welcome the growing friendliness between Vatican and World Council under Pope John XXIII, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America and chairman of the Central Committee, observed that "there is little doubt that . . . the Vatican has come to see that the ecumenical movement is not inspired by a vague humanitarianism but by the basic Christian convictions...
...forest," making "this the most dangerous summer since 1939." Climax of the congress came Sunday, when more than a million people streamed for the final Mass into the vast Theresienwiese fair grounds, surrounding a high wooden altar. Direct from Rome they heard a radio message from John XXIII: "You and we perceive with great concern what dark clouds of danger hover over mankind and how heavily the peace of nations is threatened. Therefore let us pray together and with great fervor that Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace illumine the spirits of the leaders of the states...
Peter's in Rome. Pope John XXIII consecrated 14 missionary bishops, under scored the Vatican's aim to proselytize the world's youngest nations. Among seven African Negroes elevated was Poreku Dery, Ghana's new Bishop of Wa. Others came from countries that are antiquating most maps of Africa- Ruanda-Urundi, the Voltaic, Ivory Coast and Malagasy republics. With a prayerful eye on this week's summit talks, His Holiness said: "The attention of millions is directed with deep anxiety on the words, actions, appearances of the highest representatives of the great nations on whose...