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Still convalescing from his month-long siege of influenza, Pope Pius XII canceled his routine private and public audiences as the only celebration of his 77th birthday and the 14th anniversary of his election to the papal throne...
Last week Blanshard thought he had found, in Dublin, a good object lesson of how Catholicism conflicts with the obligations of U.S. citizens. He called at the U.S. embassy with a petition to the State Department, demanding that the U.S. citizenship of Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara, papal nuncio to Ireland, be revoked. His reason: Archbishop O'Hara, a native-born American whose diocese is Savannah-Atlanta, Ga., is violating the McCarran Act by serving as an agent of a foreign power. Said Blanshard, in a press conference over his action: "Americans believe that no American...
...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 elections in mind, and for that reason reported the papal message as direct intervention...
...papal appeal for clemency is grounded on long precedent. As special emissary of Benedict XV in World War I, the present Pope journeyed to Berlin to deliver a fruitless appeal to spare the life of Nurse Edith Cavell. And in 1944, Pius XII again asked the Germans for mercy-and was refused again-in the slaughter of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome. During the Spanish Civil War, Pius XI was successful in persuading General Franco to spare the lives of several Loyalist prisoners...
...Angelo just laughed. In Rome, he had been careful to accept only patients who were accompanied or referred by a licensed physician. Among the many doctors who had sent the wizard cases was the papal physician, Galeazzi-Lisi. Chuckled D'Angelo: "If they do this to me, they'll have to file against all the doctors who sent me my patients...