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Relations between the Vatican and Belgrade have been shaky since Marshal Tito rose to power. A recent letter to Pope Pius XII from the Yugoslav Episcopate made them even worse. The letter accused the Tito Government of closing Catholic schools, suppressing all Catholic newspapers and substituting civil marriages for religious ceremonies. Since the war's end. the letter added, 243 Yugoslav priests had been killed, 169 imprisoned...
...Pope Pius XII, taking note that Italian women were about to vote nationally for the first time, made it plain that the Church wanted them to: "Your day is here . . . public life needs you . . . direct action . . . is indispensable." He warned them against the "marvelous promises" of totalitarianism, and observed that "no wise woman favors a policy of class struggle...
...plans for the submarine) and destroyed it, on the ground that mankind is too evil to be trusted with such power. Later, men "high in Vatican circles" spoke of "useless massacre,"deplored "the circumstances which have compelled" the use of the bomb. London's Catholic Herald recalled Pope Pius' "Christian distinction between legitimate and illegitimate weapons...
...Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, presented Pope Pius with a plate for cultivating mold to be used in re searches. In return he received this year's Pontifical Medal (picturing the Good Samaritan), and was eulogized as "a geat benefactor of mankind...
Although the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, said atomic bombing had created "an unfavorable impression" in the Vatican, Pope Pius XII told visiting newsmen that such a statement was unauthorized...