Word: gasparri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
...blacksmith is Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, a personage well able to return with interest the lightning of Cardinal Gasparri's glance. Unquestionably these two sons of peasants are the greatest Italian statesmen of their century. They met face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps...
...confirmative despatch, succinct and unequivocal, declared: "A prelate generally known as the spokesman for Cardinal Gasparri [famed, beetling-browed Papal Secretary of State] frankly said today that five basic points have been substantially agreed upon" between representatives of Dictator Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius...
...Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri was believed, last week, to have taken a bold step. This was to arrange an audience with the Pope for Gustav Cardinal Piffl of Austria (TIME, May 2) in the course of which His Holiness allegedly said: "This you will please tell all Catholics, I am not free and the relation between the Church and State in Italy today is exactly the same as on Sept. 20, 1870. We will do all possible in the future, and we will also pray. But we must at the same time be prepared to see even worse...
Even without such confirmation, however, it was abundantly clear, last week, that pallid, spectacled Pope Pius and swarthy, vigorous Cardinal Gasparri are now as one in their convictions that the Roman Question cannot be settled...