Word: papal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devoted Son of the Church, Count Dalla Torre conducts L'Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
Such mad and quixotic propaganda is particularly obnoxious to the Holy See because it strains the proverbially good relations existing between shrewd, sleepy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of the French Republic and suave, far-sighted Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
Pope and Premier had thus exchanged blows making their estrangement absolute. But the question arose, "Who counseled His Holiness to flay Fascismo?" For answer observers looked well upon Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, famed Papal Secretary of State. At him a jumpy Protestant might well point a finger and cry, "Papist!" He is of heavy, compact, menacing build, and his great eyebrows have that peculiar upward and outward tilt with which most sculptors have endowed the Prince of Darkness...
...Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri was believed, last week, to have taken a bold step. This was to arrange an audience with the Pope for Gustav Cardinal Piffl of Austria (TIME, May 2) in the course of which His Holiness allegedly said: "This you will please tell all Catholics, I am not free and the relation between the Church and State in Italy today is exactly the same as on Sept. 20, 1870. We will do all possible in the future, and we will also pray. But we must at the same time be prepared to see even worse...
...authority upon the medieval Church in England. Upon his appointment he set to work in the Palace of St. Calixtus, which Pius V the last sainted Pope, gave to the Benedictine order in 1566. In 1914, Pius X spoke of him to potent Cardinal Merry del Val, then the Papal Secretary of State: "Abbot Gasquet is really the right man in the right place, and we must show him our appreciation. ..." A few months later His Holiness gave Francis Aidan Gasquet permission to wear a Cardinal's red hat.*Last week, tall, genial in his talk and warmly sensitive...