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...Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, rejoiced last week at the ending of bloodshed in Indo-China. "Nevertheless, for Catholics," it added, "there remain grave and alarming fears for the future of their brethren in creed who now have passed under a regime inspired and guided by Communism...
Casting a disapproving eye on the vast roundup of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton...
...began with what the Vatican paper, L'Osservatore Romano, called "a slight indisposition." Pius XII, close to his 78th birthday (March 2), had been afflicted with an attack of hiccups, at first sporadic, then almost incessant and accompanied by a slight fever. But he carried on through his normal day: rising at about 6, saying Mass, and working until near 2 in the morning...
...Historical Example. At first Italians showed resentment of Alcide de Gasperi for the quick and unceremonious demise of the Pella regime; his picture was even booed in some newsreel theaters. The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano took the rare step of publicly entering a political scrap-on Pella's side. But with surprising haste much of the newspaper following which Pella had built up petered away within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible...
...oath of loyalty to the Communist government signed by the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Poland (TIME, Dec. 28) was an extorted one, said the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. "An oath taken under such conditions is objectively invalid...