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Catholic University is also the only U.S. university whose rector must be approved by the Pope. Last May, Pope Pius XII confirmed the Rt. Rev. Msgr: Patrick J. McCormick, 67, for his second five-year term. The tall, austere priest has taught at C.U. for 37 years...
...Vatican, Pope Pius XII received 570 devout Catholic workers, who delivered to him some samples of their handiwork: a motorized bicycle and an electric toaster...
With his prosperity (he owns a 640,000-acre ranch in Arizona, supports 100 model farms from Maine to Wisconsin), Charlie Ward has also won prominence. He is a 32nd-Degree Mason. For his gifts to churches and charities, he has been commended by Pope Pius XII. He also remembers ex-convicts, gives a chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants...
...hotel operators and storekeepers of Italy listened to the Pope with a special joy last week. In his semi-annual radio address to the world's Catholics, Pius XII announced officially that 1950 would be a Holy Year-the 25th in the church's history**-during which Catholics who visit Rome to "venerate the tombs of the Apostles and the See of Peter" earn special indulgences for their sins...
...Rome last week, Pope Pius XII reminded the International College of Surgeons that their moral duty is to spare unborn infants even at the risk of their mothers' lives. Surgeons, he said, should not heed "the understandable anguish of husbandly love" when faced with such a choice. "God alone is Lord of life...