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Died. Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 79, since 1948 dean of the College of Cardinals ; of a cerebral thrombosis ; in Rome. A native Roman and boyhood friend of Pope Pius XII, he was secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (which decreed last week that priests might no longer be members of Rotary Clubs or attend meetings see RELIGION); as vicar general of Rome for the past 20 years, he did his best to keep the local priests away from theaters and sporting matches...
Rome buzzed last week with rumors of red hats. Since the last cardinals were created in 1946, death has reduced the roster of the College of Cardinals from its full 70 to only 52. Pope Pius XII, it was said, would soon call a consistory to restore the depleted ranks. Though the Pope would not necessarily create 18 new princes of the church, Vatican insiders rated a few outstanding Roman Catholic prelates as sure bets. Among them...
...knees before the Holy Door of St. Peter's, white-mantled Pope Pius XII lifted a golden trowel. In the center of the door's threshold, he placed a dab of slaked lime with the words: "In fide et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Filii Dei Vivi [In the faith and the strength of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God]." Continuing to intone the Latin formula, he placed lime to the right and left on the threshold, then laid three bricks-one gilt and two silvered-in the mortar. Thus, a year after...
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...Rome, Pope Pius XII told an international pilgrimage of editors that films and television exercised "a unilateral influence ... on man, and more especially on youth, with its almost purely visual action carrying with it such a danger of intellectual degeneracy that one begins to consider it a danger for all people...