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Archbishop Spellman had three audiences with Pope Pius XII. What the Archbishop and his great & good friend discussed was known only to themselves. But the question of Cardinals for the U.S. may have been mentioned. Since the death of Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME, May 1), the U.S. has had only one Prince of the Church, instead of its normal three or four. He is Philadelphia's aging (79) Denis Cardinal Dougherty...
...year ago, when the observer visited Franco, there were three of them-a large, autographed photograph of Pope Pius XII, flanked by large, autographed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini. When he called again eight months later the pictures were still there...
...Gregorian Chant, pure, unharmonized 6th-Century melody, best heard in recent years from the Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music by the Catholic church has been sharply restricted.** But Palestrina's 16th-Century creations (best performed recently by the Sistine Chapel Choir of Rome, the Westminster Cathedral Choir of London...
During the past 35 years, he has trouped with his choir from California to Rome, where he was a great favorite with Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would...
...Popes since St. Peter, 83 are saints. Last one: St. Pius V, canonized...