Word: nuncios
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When Achille Ratti ascended the throne of the Popes at Rome 20 months ago, the surprised world-in-general grasped one fact: he had been an Alpine climber. It overlooked the fact that the new Pope? Pius XI?had been acting as Papal nuncio in Poland, which, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church, was, after the War a most crucial province...
...industry and commerce, it is only natural that they should favor any move calculated to bring the whole business to a speedy end. The Pope has not been idle. The failure of his letter of a week ago to Cardinal Gasparri was no deterrent to him. The Papal Nuncios at Munich, Belgium, Paris, were hard at work. Mgr. Pacelli, Papal Nuncio at Munich, went to Berlin and had a series of consultations with Chancellor Cuno with the result that the German Government semi-officially discountenanced sabotage. The Nuncios at Paris and Brussels were requested to urge that nothing be done...
...functions as papal delegate are purely religious, since the United States has no representative at the Vatican. (A papal nuncio represents the Holy Father in civil matters at those chancelleries which send representatives to Rome...
...principal aim of Leo XIII was to obtain religious peace and convince Europe that there need be no antagonism between the church and modern society. Even in 1843-46, while nuncio in Brussels, he saw that constitutional liberty was not opposed to the rights and interests of the church...