Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equally typical was the Italian Bishop of Terracina, who in a vibrant pastoral letter to his flock declared: "We ought most fervently to address our prayers to the God of Hosts that he may deign to bless the officers and soldiers and crown their sacrifice and heroism with complete victory. We should particularly pray for the return of the holy places and especially the Cenacle and the Holy Sepulchre, which will receive the veneration due to them only when the flag of Catholic and Fascist Italy flies above them...
...Last week Sheboygan loudly joined in the fanfare of patriotism which U. S. music is blaring (TIME, July 8). Its city council voted that every concert played in Sheboygan shall open with America, close the first half with The Stars and Stripes Forever, open the second half with God Bless America,*; wind up with The Star-Spangled Banner...
...kept strict silence about Italy's war activities. As during the Spanish War, some Italian prelates have not. Last week Most Rev. Evasio Colli, Bishop of Parma and head of the Central Bureau of Catholic Action, asked its members to pray God "so that He may bless our dear country and protect the sons of Italy who are fighting bravely. . . . Every one must perform with perfect discipline the duty assigned...
...school and some day when the world is a better place, perhaps when you are a young man, we can meet and look back at the bad days you have been through. I am in bed and as I switch out my lamp from America, I say, 'God bless...
...Vatican last week, Fascism had its adherents, although obviously not in any such blasphemous terms. There were churchmen who felt that the time had come to bless the victors, in advance...