Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning to show a paunch and double chin, Young Jim is quiet, uncommunicative, abrupt. He shoots ducks, golfs almost daily, bowls every Monday until midnight, likes to read political history. Devoted to his two daughters, aged 13 and 9, he is, like all Pendergasts, a devout Roman Catholic. He and his wife spend most of their evenings at home, invite friends in frequently for cards (bridge and pitch). Mrs. Pendergast devotes much time to hospital work...
...House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist who would like to restore the Habsburgs with young Archduke Otto enthroned at Vienna as Emperor...
...Evanston gathering, whose deliberations took place in the diocesan Pro-Cathedral of St. Luke, was impressive, devout, tedious. Chief subjects considered by their excellencies of Canada, the U. S. and the West Indies were Peace and Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems...
...look at local churches. Between these duties at Inisfada, Mrs. Brady's estate, Cardinal Pacelli chatted, supped with his blue-eyed hostess, born Genevieve Garvan, now a papal Duchess and board chairman of the Girl Scouts of America. Also at Inisfada the Cardinal celebrated daily Mass in devout and generous Mrs. Brady's private chapel...
...sovereign powers- which testify everywhere to the principle of Catholic freedom of action, even though in countries like Germany such freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became a minutante...