Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After twice examining Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac in Yugoslavia, where he is confined by government order to his home village, two American physicians reported that he was "not in any immediate danger" from his blood disease (an excess of red blood cells), thought he "still can live many, many years."
To those who acted surprised, Vatican officials were surprised right back. Cardinal Ottaviani's speech was "unexceptionable," a Vatican official said, and there was certainly nothing new in it.
"The church," the Cardinal had said, "recognizes the necessity with which rulers in some Catholic countries may be faced of granting-because of grave reasons-a degree of tolerance to the other cults. But tolerance is not a synonym for freedom of propaganda which foments religious discord and alters the...
The Duty of Rulers. In a record of his views published in the American Ecclesiastical Review, Cardinal Ottaviani was more explicit. "Now if there is any certain and indisputable truth to be found among the general principles of public ecclesiastical law," he wrote, "it is the truth that the rulers...
¶Armed with radioactive phosphorus supplied by the AEC, two top U.S. specialists flew to Yugoslavia to treat Cardinal Stepinac for polycythemia (an excess of red blood cells, sometimes called "reverse leukemia"): the University of California's Radiation Expert John H. Lawrence (TIME, April 7, 1952) and Chicago Surgeon...