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...lonely castle of La Petrella on the Naples road. There they remained for months, imprisoned vic tims of Cenci's brutality and suspicions. By any standards, Cenci was a rotter's rotter. Gross and vulgar as he was rich, he had been convicted of sodomy in the papal courts and paid the enormous fine of 100,000 scudi. His debaucheries were the talk of a Rome that was no stranger to excesses...
...Argentine prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...Roman Catholics are under episcopal instructions to welcome Negroes to white churches in accordance with papal pronouncements on discrimination and racism. In some areas, white and Negro Catholics attend the same church and send their children to integrated public schools. But practice varies in different dioceses, and most Catholic Negroes still go to segregated schools (including parochial) and attend Negro churches...
Swiss diplomats feared that such undiplomatic talk by high officials might ruffle the feelings of the French, but something had to be done. Despite the 1927 edict against Swiss joining foreign armies (except the Papal Guard at the Vatican), between 300 and 500 young Swiss join the Foreign Legion every year...
Four months ago the Vatican moved against Cardinal Segura. appointed an archbishop coadjutor with equal rights and functions plus the right of succession. Last week the 74-year-old prelate suffered another setback. The Vatican authorized publication of a message from its Papal Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, congratulating the Chapter of the Seville Cathedral for condemning a recent leaflet campaign, "directed against the Pope, the Holy See, the Nuncio, and the Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies...