Word: holinesse
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They had been written in wartime to Archbishop William Godfrey, papal Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, for transmission to the Pope. The first (in October 1943), referring to restrictions imposed on the Pope, by the German occupation of Rome, expressed "to His Holiness my profound sympathy and that of multitudes...
"[But] there are immense treasures of holiness dispersed here & there-usually in the most unexpected places. . . . Perfection is no longer in the mountains with hermits, in the convents with nuns. It is in the streets, in the banks, in the shops, in the trains and trolleys. Only last week the...
His ceaseless efforts for peace through charity and brotherly love, despite rising world secularism, nominate His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, the Man of the Year.
Voluptuousness v. Holiness
. . . Athough I heartily agree with Professor Gore that the standard of musical taste in most churches could be improved, his premises on the subject of voluptuousness v. holiness in music bear some questioning. . . .