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Symbol of a Symbol. To devout Catholics, the Catholic Church is more than an institution: it is a symbol of eternity. And the Pope, from the moment of his papal elevation, is more than a man: he is a symbol of the symbol of eternity. As symbol, Pius...
...Roman-born patrician Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, bombing Rome differs from bombing any other city. The Holy Father has often lifted his voice against warfare, more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose...
Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary, commandant of the Chaplain School, has been elevated to the rank of Domestic Prelate of the Papal Household by His Holiness Pope Plus XII, it was announced last week by the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate in New York...
Died. Federico Cardinal Cattani-Amadori, 86, veteran Vatican jurist; of heart disease; in Rome. Papal auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Signatura ( Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia), he became a Cardinal in 1935. He was the sixth Cardinal to die within the last year...
...Italy awaited the Pope's Christmas Day broadcast. A fortnight previously police had stood by helpless to interfere when thousands gathered before St. Peter's at Papal services, chanting: "Long live peace!" Embarrassed, the Italian press had tried to explain away the demonstrations as "obviously a tribute to the Pope's efforts for peace before...