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...almost unprecedented low (49). Reason: the war has prevented many possible recipients of the red hat from traveling to the Vatican. Sometimes the Pope creates a Cardinal in petto (in the breast, i.e., he keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto when the American prelate was at the Vatican a month ago. Last week Archbishop Spellman flew from Algiers to Cardinal Hinsley's funeral...
Jubilee Coming. Almost blind, rather deaf, lanky, square-jawed Cardinal Hinsley was never well since he had a bout with paratyphoid in Africa a decade ago. Yet, despite recurring heart attacks, the prelate's seven years at Westminster were enormously active. When the late Pope Pius XI appointed Hinsley Archbishop in 1935 he was practically unknown in England. Son of a Yorkshire carpenter and an Irish mother, he had spent several quiet decades as a schoolmaster and rector of a London parish and Rome's English College. In 1926 he was consecrated a Bishop and sent to Africa...
...Archbishop with his high-pitched Yorkshire-Irish brogue expressed his "unbounded indignation" at the Italian attack on Ethiopia (and defended the silent Pope as "a helpless old man"). What Pius thought of this remark is not on record, but twice afterwards when His Holiness created new Cardinals, he passed over Hinsley...
Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...
President Roosevelt in 1939 recognized the Vatican's unique position in world diplomacy, sent retired Steelman Myron Taylor to Rome as the President's personal emissary to Pope Pius XII. Taylor since then has been three times to Rome...