Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly George V might ask Calvin Coolidge to pardon an Englishman. Promptly Il Re granted the request of Il Papa, last week, by advice of Il Duce, who is anxious to cement in every possible way the new Italo-Papal accord (TIME, Feb. 18). Presumably the priests freed under Civil Law will be retried under Canon Law, and, if convicted, clapped back into civil jails...
...soon as Il Duce's titles had been inserted, the film was rushed to the Vatican and there viewed with approbation by Pope Pius XI, Son-of-a-Weaver...
...several cabinet ministers had officially entered St. Peter's. This was possible because the Papacy and the government of Italy had just patched up their 59-year-old feud by a treaty (TIME, Feb. 18); and now a papist host had met for joyful and pious celebration. "Il Papa! Il Papa!" shouted the throng, which had now increased to a full 200,000. "Il Papa Consolatore! Il Papa Consolatore...
...came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal. "Il Papa! Il Papa Consolatore!" chanted the kneeling multitude, "The Pope! The Pope Consoler!" Amid out bursts of the purest ecstasy the supreme pontiff then performed the miracle of the high mass, transforming things inanimate into the veritable body and blood...
Because the Italo-Papal treaty had not yet been ratified, His Holiness had positively announced before entering St. Peter's that he would not appear upon the balcony to bless the kneelers. However 200,000 Italians shouting "Il Papa! Il Papa!" in the rain are a powerful inducement, especially when they keep it up for four solid hours. Relenting at last, the vicar of Christ briefly appeared and adequately blessed the sopping flock, but he did not impart the especially potent blessing "Urbi et Orbi!" ("to the city and to the world...