Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stapler. In Porterville, Calif., William Benedict, out hunting, lined up a couple of deer, bagged them both with one shot...
...Both titles lifted from the opera Lily of Killarney, by Sir Julius Benedict, who lifted the latter from the most popular (with the Irish) of all Irish novels, Gerald Griffin's The Collegians...
Enunciation of the Catholic peace poli cy is chiefly the work of the last five Popes (Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII). It is at once the most diffuse and most fundamental of peace programs because it is based on the belief that wars between nations can never be prevented until class conflicts within na tions have been adjusted. Therefore it talks less about peace than about the causes of social war - Capital and Labor, the relations between the individual and the State, Communism, the position of the family, regimentation, materialism...
Nobody knows yet whether Pius XII will be invited to the peace conference that follows World War II or whether he would accept if he were invited. Benedict XV was expressly barred from Versailles by a clause in the secret treaty of London. But whether or not the Pope is present, the influence of the Catholic Church's peace policy will be tremendous. Most Catholics and non-Catholics alike would agree that a peace that does not embody, at least roughly, the papal position on fundamental social issues will bring not social peace but a sword. For when traditional...
...Eight years earlier Benedict XV had made Pacelli Titular Archbishop of Sardes (an ancient See in Asia Minor...