Word: vaticaners
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...impulse is wide as well as deep. One of the most interesting exhibitions of 1950 was the Vatican's assembly of art drawn from 600 mission centers around the world. Among the finest sculptures in the show (TIME, Aug. 14) were sere oriental Madonnas from Korea and India, a dark Madonna and Child from Africa. But among the moderns of Europe and the U.S., a preoccupation with the Christian theme is still the rare exception; the main streams and the main schools follow other and worldlier concerns. Even among the exceptions it is hard to find anything with...
When reporters asked for a comment on his chat with President Truman, Myron C. Taylor, former White House envoy to the Vatican, commented: In these days, "there is altogether too much talk about everything...
Last week the Polish government's newly created Communist Office for Religious Affairs answered by charging that the bishops had violated Article III of the church-state agreement. In Article III the bishops had agreed to seek Vatican recognition of Poland's new western frontier on the Oder-Niesse Line. The bishops had not been purposeful in pressing this request on Rome, and Rome had ignored...
...celebrations and ceremonies were scheduled to last for 3½ days. Crowds thronged the floodlit Coliseum to hear famed Jesuit Preacher Father Riccardo Lombardi (TIME, March 1, 1948) speak from the stones upon which Christian martyrs once died. At the Vatican the Pope held a semipublic consistory of some 500 bishops and 35 cardinals. Behind a picture of the Virgin, painted, according to tradition, by St. Luke, the church planned one of the biggest nighttime processions Rome had ever seen...
...Area of Vatican City: 108.7 acres; area of the famed Pine Valley, N.J. golf course: 200 acres...