Evening star., 1946-02-19
Pope Expected 10 State
Position on World
Affairs Tomorrow
BY tho Assoeiofsd Press

VAI1SAN S11 1, TGU. 1S.-
Pope Plus XII may make a ma
tor pronouncement on the posi-
ton of the Roman Catholic
Church in the uneasy world
situation when the new Cardi-
nails gather tomorrow to receive
their first insignia of Office
from the pontiff.
The forecast of major papal pro-
nouncement was made tonight as
congratulations poured in from al
parts of the world to the 80 new
cardinals, including four Americans
who were made princes of the
church at a precedent-setting con-
sistory yesterday.
The pontiff's address will be de-
livered after he places birettas on
the heads of the new cardinals pres
ent at the Vatican. The colorful
ceremony will be held in the Hall
of Benedictions over the portico OF
st. Peters Basilica.
Vatican attaches said they under
stood the Pope's broadcast address
at the conclusion of the ceremony
was expected to last 30 to 40 minutes
and would be an important review
of war-inherited problems of the
weTld.
Long, Short Wave Broadcasts.
Microphones will be placed direct
ly before the papal throne in the
historic Hall of Benedictions-So-
called because Popes appear on its
middle balcony to bless throngs
which gather on great occasions in
st. Peters Plaza below-for long
and short wave broadcasts over the
Vatican radio station.
Pope Plus will speak in reply to
the dean of the 80 new cardinals
Gregory Cardinal Agagianian, the
Patriarch of CECILIA in Armenia and
the first prelate of the Armenian
rite ever elected to the sacred college.
Cardinal Agagianian's address
will be an expression of gratitude
on behalf of all the new cardinals
for their elevation to the purple
Normally each would speak, but
there are so many this time-the
largest number in history-that the
Vatican decided the dean of the
group would speak for all.
Normally, too, the pontiff s. reply
would be mere eulogy of the vir-
tues of the newly chosen members
of the sacred college.
Americans Receive Callers.
The four American cardinals ex-
tended blessings to the members of
their archdiocese as the entire
group-the most cosmopolitan ever
granted the church's second highest
honor-received formal ad calorem
calls from other members of the
College of Cardinals and diplomats
accredited to the Holy See.
John Cardinal Glennon Of st.
Louis, Edward Cardinal Mooney
of Detroit, Francis Cardinal Spell
man of New York and Samuel
Cardinal Stritch of Chicago re-
ceived a long line of beribboned
diplomats and members of the
Rome nobility, chatting animatedly
with them in English, Italian and
French. The diplomats who called
included ENJOYS to the Vatican of
Spain, Portugal, Britain, France
Poland, Cuba and Chile.
Pan Chau-ying, delegate Of the
Chinese Catholic Culture Associa-
ton, expressed gratitude to Cardinal
Spellman for visiting China last
year and expressed the hope that
the new cardinal would soon visit
his country again.
"I will try my best to see China
once more" Cardinal Spellman re-
piled.
Two New Cardinals Ill.
Two of the new cardinals present
here are i'll. Agustin Cardinal Par
RADIO y Garcia of Granada, Spain
kept to his room at the Spanish col
lege because of fatigue. Jose Car
dinal Caro- Rodriguez of Santiago
Chile, was taken to the hospital yes
terday afternoon with what doctors
first said was bronchial pneumonia
but later diagnosed as grippe.
With the late arrival of josef
Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian
primate, 80 of the 80 new princes OF
the church were present in Vatican
City for the traditional ceremonies
marking their elevation.
Johannes Cardinal de Jong o1
Utrecht, Holland, and Jules-Gerard
Cardinal Saliege of Toulouse
France, were unable because of ill.
ness to journey to the Vatican to
receive personal notification of Their
elevation. Cardinal Mindszenty was
expected to receive his notification
of election this afternoon.
Canadian Sees Pope.
Pope Plus XII granted an audi
ence to Archbishop Roderick Vile
neuve of Quebec. The pontiff was
keeping in seclusion until tomor-
rows ceremonies.
Rome's Mayor, Prince Doria Pam
phili, paid respects in the name
of the Eternal City to the new
United States cardinals who received
well-wishers at the apostolic chan
cery, where they were notified yes
terday of their elevation. Prince
Ludovico Chigi-Albani, grand mas
ter Of the Knights of Malta, also
greeted them.
Among those present were George
Macdonald, Cardinal Spellman's lay
attendant, who was wearing the in
sigma of a papal marquis and a
chamberlain of the Order of the
Knights of Malta and the order of
the Crown of Italy, and Franklyn
c. Gowan, who represented Myron
c. Taylor, President Truman's spe-
cial representative at the Vatican.
For these official visits, cardinals
traditionally wear cassock with q
train OF purple cloth tied with a
violet silk tassel, zucchetto and
violet biretta and an episcopal ring
The cardinals will go to Pauline
Chapel tomorrow to select birettas
and rings, brought there by Msgr
Toraldo di Francia, keeper of the
wardrobe. They will then proceed
to the hall of benedictions, on the
next floor, for the ceremony of the
imposition of the birettas. One by
one, the new cardinals will PROSTATE
themselves before Pope Plus XII
and kiss his foot. The Pope then
will make a speech which will he