Word: lateran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large sums to the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missionary propaganda) and spurred it to its work among the peoples. He, his Secretary of State, his legates and his nuncios dealt with rulers. His outstanding work in this respect was his settlement of the Roman Question by the Lateran Treaties of 1929, and the establishment of Vatican City as an independent sovereignty...
...Holidays were decreed: March 23 as the anniversary of the founding of the Fascist Party by Benito Mussolini & friends at Milan in 1919; February 11 as the anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Treaty creating the new Papal State in 1929 and cementing it in friendship with the Italian State...
...Rome, surrounded the Vatican, ended the temporal power of the Pontiff. Lest Italians lose a holiday the Cabinet will decree that instead of Sept. 20 they shall hereafter celebrate Feb. 11. On that date, 19 months ago, Il Duce restored the temporal power of the Papacy by signing the Lateran Treaties which established the Papal State (TIME...
Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...
...brother Francesco was deeply concerned with the settlement of the Lateran Treaties. Through the hands of another brother Ernesto has passed most of the property purchased by the Holy See in recent years. Secretary Pacelli himself is a member of the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles...