Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler's drastic exchange curbs have blocked in the Fatherland this huge total of pious contributions by German Catholics during the recent Holy Year for the Papal fund known as "Peter's Pence." If the Catholic Church should be treated in Germany as many Nazi Pagans would like to treat it, these 20,000,000 marks may not only be blocked but permanently lost to Christendom...
...Disused but in good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks...
...Papal nunciatures which automatically lead to the College are those to Spain, France, Austria, Poland; thus red hats to their four nuncios-Monsignor Federico Tedeschini, Monsignor Luigi Maglione, Monsignor Enrico Sibilia, Monsignor Francesco Marmaggi...
...hats to be bestowed, ten will remain in Vatican City or Rome. No surprise was it that one is to go to the Pope's favorite secretary, jolly and well-beloved Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, papal Master of Ceremonies, who long ago was reported named a Cardinal in pectore-secretly "in the Pope's heart" (TIME, March 20, 1933). Others: Most Rev. Carlo Salotti, secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions); Monsignor Nicola Canali, assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the Church's watchdog in matters of faith and morals); Monsignor Domenico...
...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...