Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...Chapel (where the balloting takes place) would be bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli within...
Vetoes. Cardinals are bound, under pain of excommunication, not to discuss conclave matters outside;* not to tell the secrets of the conclave afterward; not to carry commitments into the conclave. But in this election secular diplomats have a big stake in treating the "Most Eminent Princes" of the Church as if they too were secular diplomats. Last week in Rome there was a prodigious whispering and bustling of emissaries around Cardinals' palaces. And in the Rome-Berlin axis there was some clumsy public hinting to the forthcoming conclave. In Germany Das Schwarze Korps warned the four German Cardinals against...
...speech. They were no more pleased when II Telegrafo, mouthpiece of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, thumbed down as a "political" Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli, nominated as a Pastor Angelicas, predicted in old prophecies, the pious Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal dalla Costa. Since as a rule the Roman Catholic Church prefers to lead opinion rather than follow it, Il Telegrafo's nomination could be considered a death-kiss...
...before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...