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Philip's saintliness lay in his utter simplicity (he consistently refused papal offers of a cardinalate), his overwhelming love which inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to say mass without being transfixed by ecstasy). His humor lay in the bizarre penances he exacted at confession and the outlandish antics with which he humbled his own pride...
...puffy-eyed delegates of Italy's strongest party voted 3-to-1 against. Though heavily Catholic, they thus defied the present royalist policy of the Vatican (which had itself once opposed the scions of Savoy when their drive for Italy's political unification jeopardized Papal power...
...Continent's poverty also served better than centuries of papal scolding to subdue the pre-Lenten orgies of Carnival. Fun-loving Italians, hungry or not, could not resist their first chance for many years to don strange hats and masks, plunge into a sea of confetti. But Germany's famed Faschings at Cologne and Munich were canceled. Said a Munich city official: "Fasching needs a carefree spirit and abundance; today there is an abundance of tears, worry and rubble...
...Americanized the Vatican press department, for the first time issued papal documents to newsmen in all important languages. (This week, with typical American awareness of the press, he agreed to argue with Vatican authorities that over 100 secular reporters and photographers should be admitted to the Hall of Benedictions when Pope Pius presents the biretta to the new cardinals.) He also became the Vatican's first radio adviser, followed the Pope's first broadcast with an English translation...
...years later he showed his American dash by smuggling to Paris a papal indictment of Fascist attacks upon the Catholic action and youth movement; he turned it over to the A.P. and U.P. for release to the world. In Italy Spellman learned to fly, became the first Catholic bishop to win a pilot's license...