Word: apostleship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding the metaphor chosen by Cardinal Verdier felicitous. With joy the French primate received a letter entirely in the handwriting of Pius XII. "We desire ardently," wrote the Pope, "that Catholic France, overcoming the difficulties of the present hour, achieve in ever greater degree her noble vocation of apostleship and civilization, which Divine Providence has assigned to her in the concert of nations...