Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange things about Germany in recent years has been the inability of Nazis and Catholics to get together. Adolf Hitler is a Catholic and has at his elbow a Papal Chamberlain in the person of Ambassador-on-Special-Mission Franz von Papen who as long ago as 1933 negotiated a Concordat for Der Führer with Il Papa. Yet typical Nazi newsorgans have been stewing up hotter & hotter scandals about German Catholic dignitaries, lumping them all, by implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared...
...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
Twice during the past three weeks, newshawks thought there was personal significance in papal remarks. When he elevated Librarians Giovanni Mercati and Eugène Tisserant to the cardinalate (TIME, June 22), the Pope said: "We invite the Catholic faithful to pray that the Lord permit us, so long as life lasts, to pass it in unceasing, fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance...
...that the Holy Father's health had anything to do with it. Last week, however, the Vatican household felt vastly relieved when at 6:30 o'clock one evening three automobiles rolled away bearing the 79-year-old Pontiff and a small retinue to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer snuggery in the cool Alban Hills. Leaving the muggy Vatican a month earlier than usual, Pius XI planned to remain away three months, longest vacation yet scheduled...
...idea over & over in different words. On his birthday, instead of speaking in French or Italian as he usually does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope's health could forestall...