Word: acta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henceforth North and South American, African, Australian and Asiatic subscribers to the official Vatican bulletin, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See), should get their copies more nearly on time. Last week the Vatican Press announced that Acta, which has never been published anywhere but at the Vatican, will also be published in the U.S. Reason: subscribers (mostly priests) complained that since the war their monthly copies reach them from one to two years late...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...