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...Pope Pius XII, who seldom speaks directly to the U.S. press, last week received ten U.S. correspondents and told them...
...typewriter Pope Pius XII pecked out a warm greeting to UNRRA Director General Herbert H. Lehman: "May God strengthen your hands, give light and courage to the promptings of your heart - grant you the precious consolation of doing untold good . . . a truly Christlike work...
Frank Sinatra, in Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the Pope had heard of me. I was speechless. I am enthralled by all the grandeur. I am thrilled...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York was the subject of the latest Roman rumor: he would be made a cardinal next fall, then papal Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman served in the secretariat for seven years-two of them while Pope Pius XII was papal Secretary of State...
...Pope Pius XII, in good health and high spirits, told 5,000 Italian sportsmen that sport based on fair play "elevates the spirit above small-mindedness, dishonesty and trickery" . . . develops a Christian domination of the human body-which the Church regards as "a masterpiece of God ... a temple of the Holy Spirit...