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...They might also remember that last September Dr. Garbett had taken a long trip in the opposite direction-to Moscow, to give the hand of traditional ecumenical brotherhood to Russia's newly reinstated Patriarch. (Last week Patriarch Sergei gave the back of his hand to Pius XII, declared, in the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, that the Pope is not Christ's Vicar on earth...
...Pope Pius XII, speaking from the balcony of St. Peter's, appealed to "the clear sightedness and wisdom of responsible men on both sides [to spare] Rome, this noble city which belongs to all times and all places." Destruction of Rome, he said, would be an "act as inglorious militarily as it is abominable in the eyes of God and humanity...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...
...Nazis' 6 p.m. curfew on Rome forced Pope Pius XII to omit his customary midnight Mass, substitute a private Mass...
...Nazis did not shut down Radio Vaticana. Speaking in Italian, from the modern station on the highest terrace of the Vatican Hill, Pius XII addressed a 39-minute Christmas message to the world...