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...reasons of hygiene but because there was danger of sacrilegiously spilling the blessed wine, or of delaying the rite in presenting it to large numbers of people. The celebrant of the mass alone drinks from the chalice, save for the Pope in Rome. When he receives communion at a Papal High Mass he drinks the wine through a golden pipe. Lutherans receive communion in the two species, from a common cup or from individual ones as the pastor may decide...
...Manhattan, en route to Italy, arrived Very Rev. Gaetano Cicognani, Roman Catholic archbishop and papal nuncio to Peru. He went to Washington to visit his brother the Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, whom he had not seen in seven years...
...work on a painting of Washington at Valley Forge. Better men than he have learned that the pensioner must choke his muse, dry his tears, and paint, write, or chisel as he is told. Erasmus, for example, and Samuel Johnson. Only a Michelangelo could take a papal salary, tell the Cardinals to stick to their breviaries, and finish St. Peter's as he damn well pleased...
...forcibly as a gentleman would govern any other kennel. Juan Leguia was prepared for his inheritance in the chaste corridors of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. The family's greatest pride is the fact that for centuries its members have been hereditary colonels of the Papal Guard. Every Leguia heir at least once in his life served 40 days in that capacity at the Vatican. Juan Leguia also served in the British air force during...
...from the Pauline Chapel to St. Peter's, Pope Pius XI twiddled his thumbs for five minutes when the Papal elevator stalled between floors and kept 10,000 worshippers waiting...