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...78th birthday. His three-room apartment in the quiet Munich suburb of Bogenhausen is a center of Roman Catholic intellectual life in Germany, with an almost equally strong attraction for many Protestants. Just out of the hospital (where he underwent surgery for an ailment described only as neuralgia), Monsignor Romano Guardini again presided over his "Laboratory of Ideas," with its long refectory table, its delicate Gothic Madonna standing against red velvet, its record collection, and its thousands of books, including three shelves of his own writings on everything from theology to movies...
From Brazil came petitions signed by 2,000,000. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, called for mercy. In France, where dialectical discussion is served with each bottle of wine, the arguments raged as if the Dreyfus case had come alive again; in London, where the press devoted more space to Chessman than to news of the Queen's confinement, the Laborite Herald said: "If he is executed tomorrow, it will be a day when it will be rather unpleasant to be an American...
Shortly after Cardinal Ottaviani's blast, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano was out with a condemnation of all groups and movements which have supported Marxism, thereby raising some troubling questions for Christian Socialist and Social Democratic parties. "Even socialism opposed to Communism," declared L'Osservatore, "cannot be reconciled with the profession of Catholicism. Nobody can be a good Catholic and a true Socialist at the same time...
...Pope John XXIII, who bestowed upon him the diamond-studded collar of the Supreme Order of Christ, the highest Vatican order, which only a dozen people have received since John XXII gave out the first one in 1319. "To find such a figure," glowed the Vatican's Osservatore Romano about De Gaulle, "one would have to go back to Charlemagne...
...fondness for inviting old friends to dinner. "I tried to keep to the tradition," he told one intimate, "but it didn't last eight days. After all, nothing in Scripture says that I have to eat alone." The ultra-conservative editors of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano have even been known to censor what they consider an unseemly papal frankness. When, on a precedent-breaking visit to Rome's Queen of Heaven prison, John told the jailbirds that "one of my relatives who was out hunting without a license was caught by the carabinieri and sent...