European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse October 1958 the stars and stripes 9 cardinals Croft be pontiff crap the to Pope Xii May e the 55 of the chthonic per m prelate who a not a tie1 Tutrani or one of f from All Over the Esther behind locked Vatican Sisline within two or three weeks the new must one for the first time in the italians will be in the Only weapon i carry is the cross1 Pope of peace was reels Arch foe i ii fit until of non pal of Asistent Etc cumin and Vatican City up Pope Pius Xii was one of the 20th Century greatest champions of peace and most uncompromising foe of known As the Pope of Pius told the world my Mission is the Only weapon i carry la the and he warned All that communism had raised is clenched fist of Antl Chrtt in menacing Defiance against and that calamity was certainty Unteal the spirit of Justice and love enters again into the hearts of men and unites Tjem in brother delicate he helped main Ain his strength with Early morning but More important than the exercises was his Iron when his doctors begged him to take life he quoted As saying but All the italian since the Clec Holland b Adrian Cardinal Adrian i in and As pontiff of the roman Cath Olla the gentle mannered spiritual Leader of 400 million roman speculation Ngoin italian it an old a frying about to elect Popes that he conclave h meaning that Mott talked about As like la Are Nonsuit an the next Pote be a not even Ron in Vatican circles As a Chi Bot some names stand prominently mentioned Nonu Latant is Gregory Cardinal patriarch of Rhosen by to succeed the Lute Samuel pro prefect it for propagation i car id the a sport on Russia and of rites of town Vert believe his a t would Alren Gohrn ties Oie foreigner sometimes is an Norman Thomas Cardinal parti because of that the nest Pope would Frd and before he served As a 5 opera lat War a Jofto world l f Ifon Ninf it among the to Anh Bishop Monum of no Down Cardinal red hat to mb3 to remain closet Pope Obi Tiro Star eur of t daring hit a noun illness four the Pope named ii to head the Milan Arch a Obj too where he added experience to Hig Long and within the Pou Lial candidate u Cardinal archbishop of Bologna a who or flying in radio Piuto mobiles to help Roun the threat of communism in youngest is Giuseppe car the worlds but his influence extended far beyond the confines of his born Eugenio Pacelli in Rome on starch he was elected Pope just 63 Yeara the death of Pope Al piut1 career in the service of his Church spanned some of the most turbulent years in the history of they were years that saw the Rise of nazism and two world the Advent of the atomic the korean unrest and change in soviet bloc and the sue his Long years in the Vatican diplomatic service proved invaluable during his from 1944 he served As his own Secretary o slate in an untiring Effort to pro Mote world Doh Etc the Lime and he devoted to Indra Alionna affairs More than any Pope in history was a Pope of the he hid audiences for More persons than any other pontiff hundreds of thousands of nil and All his Pius fought against a Pope must work until he he held to that belief even Dur ing his critical illness in on 28 of that the Vatican announced his holiness was suffer ing from a stomach disorder that plus Xii la called in pomp through St Peters Square in Vatican City its crowd of celebrated the canonization of former pontiff St x in audiences opened world window9 Vatican City a medieval pomp and pageantry surrounded Pius Xii in the most impressive ceremonies of the roman Catholic no other Pope Ever received so Many people As simply As he did his like those of his Pius were a win Dow of the but no pontiff had Ever looked so keenly from that window As did Pius the audiences were a daily break in More intense his Doc Tor said they helped to prevent Monotony in the Long hours of work and but the eager Ness with which he tarried among pilgrims and tourists often worried hit among the pontiffs sorrows when he first became gravely ill in january and again in was that he had to forego these with the people Pius Xii eatable thed Many but the one for which archbishop of millions will remember him in the immediate years to come is this he met More people than any other pontiff in the nearly years of the Catholic the Way was easy for anyone who wished to see in despite his seven weeks the Pope received people in special and Gen eral he received even More the year before and millions during the holy when tremendous weekly audiences were held in Peters All walks of life during the holy Pius Xii gave some hours to More than audiences of All he met people from All walks of like and spoke to them upon subjects that ranged from philosophy to Day after Day he continued the rhythm of his audiences and one of Early in revealed him in his most human it was held in the Clementine chamber of the Vatican a line of pews had been drawn before Hie people gathered from various when the Pope appeared ther was the usual italian cheer o Viva h surprising an disconcerting to americans Whei they first hear the Pope i not go to his instead h began shaking hands with those urch gained 100 million in reign City with of Pope Pius Xii found the Catholic Church at its Jitt tuft expansion and influence Church total membership nearly 500 million on fifth Tihe earths despite persecution in comm met Nilca world Mcm map in the Char re increased if fore 100 million during or plus 19year was especially great in catholics in from in million in 1923 to Ali an 30 million in in membership increased from 25 million in 1923 to More than 14 million in As never before in Many nations were represented n the sacred College of the Hijji Senate body of the for Pius Xii was respond he had made the roman Church Universal in fact As Well As in in two great one in 1946 and the other in the Pope named 55 new the 32 he created in the first was the largest number Ever named at one Many nations got their first and the College had us full complement of to for the first Timo in More than 200 eleven Cardinal cies went to the new the received the 108acre state of which the Pope is absolute is minuscule compared with the area of the papal Stales in the 19th Bui Many Here believe the in fluence of the present state of Vatican City and its is far weightier than that even held before by the who had been Lucky enough to gel a place directly behind the line of for each he had n few As he moved slowly along the his dark blown eyes Looker questioningly into each As he now in now in in to his hands seemed to carry on a separate activity of their they were extended to be the ring to be reaches when he reached a group of the Pope do you like it Here he was pleased by an american woman attempt to touch his Robe with a it is for my she to the evident Relief of his the Pope ascended the Steps to his he in six but Ai the end of his addresses and to the consternation of his he did not leave the again he came to the american woman who had touched his Robe with the Rosary there Ore so Many Here the Pope told her and then asked with concern could you understand everything i said in English of Aid the startled i mean you it was mar aused persistent Hiccup ing and consequent fatigue from Lack of Ood and the ailment was treated off and n during that year at the Vatican and his summer residence at Cartel outside in Loveitt Oer and december Pius hovered ear death for but he waft dared and gradually regained hta the topics on which he wrote and addressed people cover an in nral Lelec Range in the history of he the subjects ranged rom animals to astronomy to to he could talk about fluently in seven languages Rench and the Popes voice was never raised More loudly or More forcefully than when he spoke against Lis lifelong wish was that monism would be crushed by the Ime of his Eusenio Pacelli evinced a desire life for the religious Voca Ion which was to Lead him to the highest office of the Catholic ordained in 1899 he attended an elementary school conducted by the French Sisters of Tovi Dence and the Visconti High school in in the fall of he entered Almo Collegio Caprar Ca in but poor health forced in interruption in his religious a year later he resumed his studies As a Day student at the athenaeum of the Apollinare and state University of faculty of philosophy and on easter april he was ordained a priest in the Basilica of Mary his extremely Brilliant University record had not gone unnoticed by the Vatican and in 1901 he was summoned to work As a minor clerk in the papal secretariat of he gained his first experience in Vatican policymaking while still in his by the 38yearold Mon sign or was named Secretary of the sacred congregation of extra Ordinary ecclesiastical that same year he negotiated his first concordat treaty Between the Vatican and a foreign in this Nuncio to Bavaria three years later he was appointed apostolic Nuncio envoy to Bavaria and made titular Are Ishop of in this Post he presented to Kaiser Wilhelm the peace proposals to end world Wai which were drawn up by the Hen Pope Benedict the envoy was called Home in and made a Cardinal on 6 of that two months was appointed Vatican secret Ary of during a decade in that Cardinal Pacelli travelled widely in latin America and the his trip to America in 1936 made history because it was the first Ime that a Man in that office had visited the in Earty Cardinal Pacell was planning his first vacation in 10 but it was not to i died on destiny ruled that Eugenio Pacelli was to be elected the 262d supreme pontiff of the roman on he was named by his fellow princes of the the College of card in the speediest conclave the new Pope took the name Pius so much did he cherish the memory of his British prime minister Winston Churchill was received in audience by the Pope shortly after the end of world War Churchett told the pontiff of stains remark at Yalta How Many divisions has the Pope the holy father re plied v when you see our son Josepn Tell him that he Wilt meet our divisions in the
