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...Lateran pacts and Concordat with Mussolini whereby the Italian Government agreed to pay the Vatican $39,200,000 in cash; to give it $52,300,000 worth of Ital ian Government bonds; to recognize Vatican City as a sovereign state; and to make Catholicism the state religion of Italy...
Roman Catholics fare no better in Editor Dark's book. He assails the Vatican for temporizing with Hitler and for ditching Catholicism's Popular Party in Italy to come to terms with Mussolini in the Lateran Treaty. "With its Right definitely Fascist and its Left timorously sentimental," says he, "the Christian reformer can expect nothing of any constructive value from the Roman Catholic communion in England...
Married. Marchese Giulio Pacelli, son of the late Marchese Francesco Pacelli who had a hand in the negotiations leading up to the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican in 1929; and 'Signorina Piera Bombrini; in Vatican City. Officiating at the ceremony was Pope Pius XII, formerly Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli, uncle of the groom...
...invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain to the end of his days. The House of Savoy moved into the Quirinal, which had belonged to the Popes. Pius IX and four of his successors, unceasingly protesting their "despoliation," remained in voluntary imprisonment until the Lateran Treaties of 1929. They and their partisans - to Roman society, "Blacks" as opposed to the "Whites" of the Court - would no more have thought of visiting the Quirinal than of going to a Methodist prayer meeting. Until last week. Then, as part of a beautifully staged "reconsecration" of the Lateran Treaties...
Probably nobody living that day had ever before witnessed that ancient, elaborate ceremony, last performed 93 years ago by Pius IX. The late Pope Pius XI quietly took over St. John's without pageantry after the Lateran Treaty of 1929. More significant than its spectacular pageantry was the political meaning of this "taking possession." To Catholics throughout the world it marked a new militancy in the Vatican, a new deference from Mussolini. In Catholic eyes it was not so much a procession as a triumph...