Evening star., 1946-02-17
Cardinal Consisfories|
Are Example Of Unity
For World, Pope Says
By tho Asseeiaied Prs..

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 16.-Pope
Plus XII today cited as an example
of "a unity and fraternity" for a
war-Shattered world the consisto-
ries opening Monday to create 80
new cardinals from l9 countries in
6 continents.
Addressing the new Spanish Am
bassador to the Holy See, Pablo de
Churruca Dotres, Marques of
Aycinena, who presented his Gre
dentials, the Pontiff said:
"The beginning of your new and
honorable mission takes place at a
moment in which high prelates
from all parts of the world gather
IN the center Of Christianity, offer
ing to world which slowly re-
covers from the bitter consequences
OF war the edifying spectacle of a
= unity and fraternity that has its
foundation in God our Lord"
The Pope said that by "the loving
disposition of Divine Providence"
Spain had been spared the horrors
of q world war"
French, German Prelates Embrace.
During the day two cardinals
designate from Germany and one
from France, at the Vatican for pa
pal audiences, met and embraced
warmly.
They were the 6-foot 8-inch Gle
mentus Augustus Won Galen, Bishop
of Muenster, the tallest Of the new
princes of the church; Archbishop
Josef .Frings of Cologne and the
ailing 80-year- Archbishop of
Rouen, Pierre Petit de Julleville.
Said the French prelate: 'In the
church there are no vanquished or
victors-all are equal"
There was striking evidence, too,
OF the pontiff's interest in defeated
Germany, where he had served in
his younger days as the papal
nuncio to Berlin.
For an hour, the longest audience
given any of the % cardinals-des-
ignate so far, the Pope questioned
the Cologne archbishop about con-
ditlons in the occupied Reich.
Shows Affection for Reich.
Archbishop Frings said the Pope
showed 'paternal affection" for
Germany. The German prelate said
his country was the poorest in Eu-
rope because we have been de-
stroyed. We have little food, and
factories are being continuously
closed by the Allies"
Cardinal designate Archbishop
Francis j. Spellman of New York
City celebrated mass today in mag
nificent st. Paul's Outside the Walls,
where he said his second mass after
his ordination as a priest. He will
say a mass tomorrow at st. Al
fonsus
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch of
Chicago sat briefly at the Secre-
tariat of State today for prelimi-
nary sketches for a portrait to hang,
together with coat of arms, in
the Rome church of which he will
become titular head as a cardinal.
1t was announced that Arch
bishop Edward Mooney of Detroit
would take formal possession of his
cardinalitial title in the Church of
Santa Susanna in ceremony Feb
ruary "a, six days after his eleva-
ton to the purple.
Archbishop John j. Glennon of
st. Louis, 83, oldest of the new
cardinals-designate, rested in his
hotel room all day.
Takes Over Church February 25.
Archbishop Spellman told cor
respondents at press conference
that he planned to take possession
of his titular church-the Church
of Saints John and Paul-at pm.
February 25. A..
The prelate said the papal mas
ter of ceremonies, Msgr. F. Angelini,
has been assigned to him for next
weeks conSiStorieS.
Asked at what precise time he
will become cardinal, Archbishop
Spellman said it would be at the
moment the old cardinals assent
to the nominations in secret ses-
sion Monday.
The cardinal designate will cele-
brate a mass at 9 am. tomorrow
at ST. Alfonsus Church.
Archbishop Edward Mooney of
Detroit today visited the catacombs
and dined with Archbishop Samuel
Stritch of Chicago at the latter's
residence.
Cardinal-designate John Glennon
of ST. Louis received visitors at the
Grande Hotel and dined with the st.
Louis groups there.