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...Notre Dame's new $8,000,000 library. Another Curia officer, Paolo Cardinal Marella, 69, presided over the unveiling of the Pieta at the New York World's Fair, and brought Francis Cardinal Spellman a sentimental gift from Pope Paul: a topaz brooch once worn by Pius XII on state occasions. Marella returned home with four honorary doctorates, including one from Catholic University, which last year barred four progressive theologians from giving lectures there; conservative Marella commended the university for its loyalty to the teachings of the Holy...
...Cardinal Moneybags." When Pope Pius XII named Spellman as its archbishop in 1939, New York was probably the richest see in the U.S.; it is now the richest in the world. Spellman's spiritual empire, running from Staten Island to the Catskills of Ulster County, has almost doubled in size, to 1,782,000 faithful. To serve his growing congregation, Spellman has built 37 new churches, 130 schools and five hospitals (including the New York Foundling Hospital, his favorite charity); almost every year he is responsible for $90 million worth of construction. Much of this he managed by consolidating...
Admiration & Criticism. It also respects him as the second most powerful man in the church. One reason has been his close personal friendship with Pope Pius XII and now with Pope Paul. Another is his unique ability to help out the church in useful ways that seldom get into print. After World War II, he convinced Pius of the need to internationalize the Vatican's Italy-centered investments. Later, they say in Rome, he donated more than $1,000,000 to help the Holy See pay for the Ecumenical Council. Spellman would never be so indiscreet as to interfere...
Bubbling Scandal. Donations continued to pour in from all over the world. The monastery prospered astonishingly, to the envy of other Capuchins. Padre Pio, who had been relieved of his vow of poverty in 1957 by Pope Pius XII in order to supervise the donations and administer their good works, became known as "the richest monk in the world." In fact, he declared truthfully, "the money does not belong to me; it belongs to the charities for which it was intended." But jealousy-and, by this time, scandal-began to bubble...
...world-wide publicity in the early '30s, was eventually approved by the church because it does not directly interfere with the procreative purpose of sex, whereas any barrier put between the sperm and the ovum frustrates the natural design of the act. Equally sinful is sterilization, and when Pius XII, speaking to a group of hematologists in 1958, outlawed the oral steroid pills (TIME, March 20) when used as contraceptives, it was on the ground that they temporarily sterilize the female reproductive system...