Word: cicognani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...envoy to the Philippines since 1949. Archbishop Vagnozzi, the son of a Roman clerk, spent virtually all his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, has also had experience in the U.S. as secretary to the Apostolic Delegation from 1932 to 1942. In the U.S. post, Vagnozzi succeeds Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, whose new duties include posts in three of the Sacred Congregations...
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, 75, born to a poor peasant family in the north Italian town of Brisighella, served as a young priest in the Curia, became an expert on canon law. Named apostolic delegate to the U.S. hierarchy in 1933 and stationed in Washington, he has served since then as unofficial diplomatic contact between the Vatican and the U.S. Government. In appointing him cardinal, Pope John made a rare exception to the rule that close relatives are not to be members of the College of Cardinals at the same time: Cicognani's brother Gaetano (two years older) has been...
...Washington, Archbishop Amleto Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., confirmed L'Osservatore's story but with a distinctly different accent. The Pope, said Cicognani, had received many messages deploring the Rosenbergs' death sentences. Last December, on orders from the Vatican, Cicognani passed this information along, without comment, to Truman's Attorney General McGranery, a Catholic papal knight...
...Apostolic Delegate's explanation. McGranery had received the information, he said, but had pigeonholed it since it had no bearing on the merits of the case. He had not thought it necessary to pass the word along to the White House or the Department of State. Then Archbishop Cicognani proved McGranery's point about the tenor of the exchange by sending a new message on the Pope's behalf to the White House-noting that more letters had been received at the Vatican, but still making no comment or plea. The White House firmly indicated that...
Execution Date. The differences in accent between L'Osservatore's version of the Pope's plea and Archbishop Cicognani's in Washington could probably be attributed to the differences in political climate between Italy and the U.S. L'Osservatore broke Vatican custom by publicizing the Pope's plea for clemency, and it did so immediately after Italy's Communist L'Unita (with the largest circulation in Italy) criticized the Pope's failure to intervene on behalf of the Rosenbergs. In all probability, L'Osservatore spoke with the critical Italian spring...