When The Most Important U.S. Papal Envoy Was An Episcopal

I noted that CUA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Formal Diplomatic Relations between the Holy See and the United States today. This was anniversary was actually in January but CUA is having a huge day long presentation on it today.

Of course we are talking Formal relations. We have had in real terms relations for a good bit of our history.

Recently most Envoy's have been Catholic. However this has not always been the case. In fact when anti Catholic thought raged in the USA it was usually a Protestant

One cannot think that one of the most important of our Envoy's was a Episcopalian that served under FDR and Truman. Not only for US interest but as we have seen for the whole benefit of Europe and especially the Italian People.

Wiki has a good entry on the service of Myron Charles Taylor here.

We learn among other things he critical in limiting the bombing of Rome and through his efforts set up the main American organization to help the post war devastated Italians.

Of interest is this Time Magazine piece from that period that shows Time was as horrible covering the Catholic Faith as it is today. The sniping toward ENVOY Taylor and that silly anti Catholic Conspiracy theory they put at the end is telling of the times.

It appears Evoy Taylor's Personal Papers are at the Truman Library in Missouri. It would be interesting to review them.

The FDR Presidential Library also appears to have some important documants too.

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