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Inasmuch as Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is now a temporal as well as a spiritual Sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). His Holiness allowed himself to be interviewed as such for the first time last week...
...Pius XI?Ambrogio Domieno Achille Ratti, like the ninth Pius at the time of his death, is prisoned in the Vatican. Toward him no greedy Kings or Emperors cast envious eyes. The Catholic Church may own many lands but the Pope does not own any. Herein may lie subject matter for a Council...
Such a prospect would not have appealed to many former Pontiffs, but the present Holy Father, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, was an agile athlete and a daring Alpinist in his cold youth. Though never a fancy skater or ski jumper, His Holiness was once an intrepid bobsledder and a skilled toboggan steersman. The present twelvemonth, 1929, is his "Jubilee year"-the 50th since he first celebrated Mass-and therefore devout Catholics hoped, last week, that by next Christmas the "Prisoner of the Vatican" will be released and restored to an athletic life...
...Look at that picture-Mr. Hoover and myself sitting together. We both accomplished careers." So, according to Correspondent Prince Pignatelli of Universal Service (Hearst), said His Holiness Pope Pius XI the day after election, in Rome. When he was Achille Ambrogio Domiano Ratti, Apostolic Delegate to Poland, Pius XI was photographed in Warsaw with Herbert Hoover and Marshal Josef Pilsudski...
...even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...