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...Catholic offices and news services were unable last week to confirm the report of the Pope's ban. Observers recalled that last year a papal film called The Shepherd of the Seven Hills was widely and commercially exhibited (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). Currently the Pope appears and speaks in Man of Courage, a full-length commercial picture dedicated to the glory of Fascism and Mussolini...
...very day of this Papal blast a self-appointed commission to investigate Spain's atrocities reached Madrid. Led by the 5th Earl of Listowel, the investigators consisted of M. Charles Bourthomieux of the French Court of Appeals. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, a pert proletarian and onetime British Labor M. P., and Lord Listowel's secretary, a Czech named Katz...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 82. longtime (1914-29) Papal Secretary of State, first Cardinal since the 11th Century to hold that office under two Popes; of pneumonia following influenza; in Rome. In 1929 anti-Fascist Cardinal Gasparri and No. 1 Fascist Benito Mussolini signed with gold pens the famed Lateran treaties restoring the diplomatic and temporal status of the Papacy after a 59-year break...
...lightship 125 miles down the River Plate from Buenos Aires an escort of six cruisers picked up the S. S. Conte Grande which was flying the yellow-&-white papal flag and bearing His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (TIME, Oct. 1). As the liner proceeded up the broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed...
...Holy Trinity, Port of Good Airs. And the faithful who will throng the city represent the Pope's largest flock-Latin Americans who comprise one-third of the world's 300,000,000 Catholics. Thus the Vatican was happy to emphasize that in sending Cardinal Pacelli as Papal Legate to the Buenos Aires congress the Pope was expressing his high esteem for his Latin American children. Not mentioned at all by the Vatican was a report that one reason for Cardinal Pacelli's going is the prevalence in South America of morbid, unhealthy cults of the Virgin...