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Thus Pope Pius last week blessed President Juan Peron's scheme for increasing Argentina's population from 14 to 20 millions in 10 years by admitting "selected" immigrants from Europe...
Said Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
...Japan MacArthur, ruling through an ex-god, was trying one of the boldest experiments in human history; but 1946 gave little hint of how his attempt to remake a whole people would come out. Throughout 1946 Pope Pius XII had been a symbol of Western civilization's resistance to the rule of materialism; but the Communists, unlike the mountains, would not be moved by faith; the struggle that engaged the Pope was fought currently in the field of politics. For a time it looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong...
...continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became...
Died. Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni, 69, friend and protegé of Pope Pius XI, who was named a Cardinal in 1935, served the Vatican as chamberlain-in-chief, majordomo and dean of the Order of Deacons; of a heart ailment; in Rome...