Word: catholicizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the present Pope's masterly diplomacy, as especially shown in settling the Vatican question (TIME, June 17), the Cardinal wrote: "Our Catholic hearts were filled with joy and our souls profoundly touched with indescribable emotion when we realized that the serene, impressive, apostolic, illuminating figure of our...
However pleasing to the Pope was news of this celebration, last week he accomplished something that must have been even more gratifying to him. Seizing the most propitious moment possible, he completely healed the breach between Czechoslovakia and the Catholic Church.
Last week at Prague the Papal Nuncio gave to President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sacred Tomb. Knowing this cross had hitherto been given only to Catholic sovereigns, the Czechs realized the Pope wished the breach completely healed. Especially joyful were they because of...
3) "The Catholic church will increase in power in America. . . . It keeps a stronger hold on its children. They breed faster."