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During Christmas week. Pope John XXIII kept up his no-nonsense disrespect for hoary papal traditions, left the Vatican to beam his gentle pastoral smile on those who perhaps needed it most-invalid children in a Rome hospital, convicts at the grim Regina Coeli prison, where one inmate asked his help in getting an amnesty from the government. "I'm afraid that's out of my competency," replied the Pope. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty." Then he added: "But I have some influence...
...Appointed a new Apostolic Delegate to the U.S.-the Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, 52, who has served as papal 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...
Giuseppe Fietta, 75, has a long career as a papal diplomat but often likes to stroll the streets of his north Italian home town of Ivrea and play boccie with his friends. He became nuncio to Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1931, to Argentina from 1936 to 1953, when he returned to Rome as nuncio to Italy...
Carlo Chiarlo, 77, born in the central Italian town of Pontremoli. is a veteran of 40 years in the Vatican foreign service-most of the time in Latin America. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Warsaw; then, with the rank of archbishop, he was sent as papal nuncio to Bolivia. After posts in several Central American countries, Pope Pius XII appointed him nuncio to Brazil in 1946, where he is remembered for his warmth, wit and sharp judgment...
William Godfrey, 69, son of a Liverpool haulage contractor, is a scholarly, somewhat remote man who headed the English College in Rome from 1930 to 1937. In 1938 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Britain, the first papal delegate to that country since the Reformation. In World War II Archbishop Godfrey also served as chargé d'affaires in the Polish government in exile. In 1953 he was made Archbishop of Liverpool, and three years later became Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales...