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Until last fortnight only the semi-official Papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano, had dealt with Italy's burgeoning racism. Twice thereafter, however, Pope Pius XI himself spoke publicly against it. Last week the aging Holy Father, in a speech to Catholic seminarians visiting him at Castel Gandolfo, summed it up in the most vigorous words he has uttered for years. Pounding home his recently-repeated point that "Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members...
...time Adolf Hitler arrived in Rome last week (see p. 22), His Holiness Pope Pius XI had retreated from the comforts of the Vatican and gone to his unheated palace at Castel Gandolfo, which he does not usually visit until definitely warm weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should...
After celebrating Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Pope Pius XI motored through the gardens of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, then got out of his auto and walked about for several minutes. It was his longest walk this year...
...Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XI had turned from the confused course of Europe to consider the state of his Church in the U. S. Last week he commanded that a new, 17th archdiocese be established in Detroit. To it he assigned the 600,000-odd Catholics of that diocese, the 148,000 of Grand Rapids-both dioceses having been in the Province of Cincinnati-and some 87,000 of Marquette, heretofore part of the province of Milwaukee. Thus the Detroit archdiocese becomes the fifth largest in the U. S. Within it the Pope set up a new diocese, Lansing, 93rd...
...earned for Al Smith a Catholic martyr's crown. Year after his defeat he received the University of Notre Dame's Laetare-Medal, an award seldom given a politician and the highest honor the Catholic Church in the U. S. can bestow upon a Catholic layman. At Castel Gandolfo last week arrived Al Smith, on the pilgrimage which every good Catholic hopes to make before he dies...