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...latitude. For their first appearance in print, most stuck close to familiar academic ground. One scholar wrote about the poetry of Catullus; another about the sorrows of St. Augustine's mother; still another about the various shades of purple in Virgil ("We must tell the cardinals!" exclaimed Pope Pius after reading the article). But in spite of such heavy fare, subscriptions were pouring in at the rate of about two dozen a day-including a daily five or six from the Foederatae Americae Civitates...
This week the four-day consistory began. In keeping with the tradition that the cardinals-designate are only candidates for their high offices (although their appointments were announced in November), Pope Pius gathered with the 22 "old" cardinals present in Rome...
...Besides running the brewery, Miller has energy left to run scores of outside activities. He is president of the Milwaukee Brewers Association, runs public relations for the U.S. Brewers Foundation, is a director of the Milwaukee County Society for Mental Health and the Milwaukee Boys' Club. Pope Pius made him a Knight of St. Gregory for running a campaign to build a new orphanage...
...hours this week, just 15 days before the elevation of 24 new cardinals in Rome, the death of Cardinal-designate Carlo Agostini, Patriarch of Venice (see MILESTONES), cut the list to 23. The following day, Pope Pius XII named another man. The new nominee, whose confirmation will help bring the College of Cardinals to its full strength of 70: India's Valerian Gracias, 52, Archbishop of Bombay...
Died. Monsignor Carlo Agostini, 64, patriarch of Venice and one of the 24 new Roman Catholic cardinals named by Pope Pius XII in November; of Parkinson's disease; in Venice...