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Last week Don Mauro was back in Europe after six months in the U.S., setting afoot a campaign to restore Monte Cassino. Fortnight ago, on the 1,400th anniversary of Saint Benedict's death, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical commending the study of the saint's life and work, and pleading for the restoration of the abbey. Saint Benedict, the Pope said, had kept alive the flame of religion and culture as "a star in the darkness of night...
...this perennial question, all churchmen and some saints have answered with a firm No. Last fortnight, in his latest encyclical (see EDUCATION), Pope Pius XII pointed to that great prescriber of physical labor, St. Benedict...
...There are men, and Monsignor Sheen is one of them, who believe in the infallibility of an Italian gentleman called Pius XII. They believe in a place of torment for their opponents, the unbelievers . . . and they call it hell...
...mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list of popes based largely on a series of dated papal portraits on the walls of the famed Roman church, St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Scholars had known that the old list was inaccurate, but it took Monsignor Mercati's diligent digging to discover how inaccurate it was. This week...
Because of sketchy records and the questionable validity of some papal elections, Pius XII will probably never know whether he is the 256th successor to St. Peter or the 260th - or somewhere in between...