Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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So saying, last week cowboyish Governor Roy E. Ayers endeared himself to Montana's rural and Roman Catholic voters-but not to big-city lawyers, dude ranchers, hotelmen-by unexpectedly vetoing a 30-day-residence divorce law passed the week prior by his legislature (TIME, Feb. 27).
Thus last week read an official Latin intimatio, delivered to the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church who had arrived in Rome for this week's papal election. This document concerning the conclave was without doubt the most noncommittal which the Lord Cardinals received during the weekend. So intense...
Pacelli's elevation to the papal throne will probably mean little or no change in the political policies of the Holy See. For in his capacity as chief papal diplomat, he had set the tenor of Church diplomacy for the last years of the life of Pope Pius XI. His...
As Pius XII, therefore, Eugenio Pacelli faces the difficult task of strengthening the position of the Catholic Church in a world troubled by numerous totalitarian states which will not countenance a powerful, established church within their boundaries. He has shown his capabilities in his former diplomatic positions. Whether he can...
"In its long history the Catholic Church has made uncommonly few mistakes, and I believe the choice of Cardinal Pacelli as Pope Plus's successor is proof of its careful judgment," stated Arthur D. Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, in an interview late yesterday.