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...knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith. Last week, in a 10,000-word encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those who are signed with the sacred mark of baptism . . . cannot any longer remain divided...
...moment came in. 1527, when they were almost annihilated on the steps of Saint Peter's by the army of Charles, Duke of Bourbon-but their delaying action probably saved the life of Pope Clement VII. Recent Popes have not needed such protection. In July, 1914, while Pope Pius X was still hoping that Europe's differences could be settled without war, the Guard commander proposed mounting a gun on St. Peter's roof. Said Pius: "Shooting might frighten the Holy Ghost away, Commander. Don't let's have any noise...
...Rome, toward the end of her grand tour, Margaret Truman had an audience with Pope Pius XII, a 15-minute chat in which he sent "very special greetings" to her father, and gave Margaret a silver Madonna medal. That afternoon she sipped tea with Premier Alcide de Gasperi, then topped the day off by shaking hands for two hours in the receiving line at U.S. Ambassador James C. Dunn's reception...
Triumph of Truth. Not until the reign of Pius IX (1846-78) and his successor Leo XIII did the Ecclesiastical Academy begin to become the major source of church talent and brains that it is today. From all over the world promising young men are now brought there for two years of juridical and diplomatic study before going on for their practical training in the State Secretariat...
...letter congratulating the academy on its recent anniversary, Pius XII, himself a teacher there for five years, stressed the spiritual nature of Vatican diplomacy. All students of the academy, he wrote, "must become convinced that there is no better nor more authoritative way of representing the Apostolic See in the diplomatic field, and at the present time even more than in all times past, than to bring about the triumph of truth, of justice and of unbounded charity...