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...This pastoral letter ... is a document of great importance . . . We do not recall another Roman Church document addressed primarily to Americans which equals this in its aggressive declaration of the papal claims," said the Century. Perhaps, it added, it indicates that the Vatican is beginning to "view with alarm the growing strength of the ecumenical movement. There was no such cracking of the disciplinary whip at the time of the Amsterdam Assembly [1948] . . . The Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva went out of his way to express his good will . . . and the Catholic bishops in Holland approved prayers for its success...
...frailest, most tired men in the world last week was Pope Pius XII, ailing for more than a month, unable for most of that time to take solid food. From his sickroom came a 2,200-word papal message on the danger of apathy in a world challenged by Communism...
...attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state. A concordat with the Vatican, he suggested, could limit the church's authority and give the state "another...
...Papal Carpetbagging. Lucrezia's big trouble was her family. Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, a crafty, sensual and deceptively charming Spaniard, got himself elected Pope in 1492 as Alexander VI. Alexander was an unashamedly worldly pontiff who made no effort to conceal Lucrezia and his seven other bastard children - indeed, thought nothing was too good for them. For eleven years, in one of history's most painstaking carpetbagging expeditions, he virtually turned the papacy and its pos sessions into a family preserve...
Lucrezia's official duties were so taxing, in fact, that she never had too much of a social life. Beyond her husbands, she had only two known lovers - well under par for her time and station. Both affairs ended badly. One lover, a papal messenger named Perotto, was put to the sword by brother Cesare in the Pope's throne room. The second, Lucrezia's brother-in-law,contracted syphilis in another affair and went off to live in seclusion...