Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, ardent restorationists, have been sorely troubled because hot-headed Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who commands an adventurous private army, has told them, in effect: "Of course I want Otto restored...
Died. Marchese Francesco Pacelli, 61, General Counselor of the Papal State, brother of its Secretary of State Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli (see p. 45), intermediary between Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI in negotiating the Lateran Treaties which created the State in 1929; of pneumonia ; in Vatican City...
...Cardinal Camerlengo. who sits during the conclave under a baldachin with the head Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest and Cardinal Deacon, the four being reverenced with a genuflection as if they were one Pope. Entrusted with what remained of the old office of Minister of the Interior & Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November, the Camerlengo was Secretary of State Pietro Cardinal Gasparri (TIME...
After a second brief service at the Cathedral and a reception by New York's Catholic Club, Cardinal MacRory embarked once more, waving a scarlet handkerchief from the deck of the Saturnia, which flew the yellow-&-white Papal flag in his honor. To the Holy Father in Rome, said he, "I will give . . . a report that will gladden his heart...
...empire poured uselessly into the desert of Philip II's fanatical schemes and such poor devils as Cervantes got never a drop. As a young man with no future, he jumped at the chance of getting out of Spain, going to Rome as Spanish teacher to a Papal legate. There, for something else to do, he became a soldier and went off to fight the Turks. In the bloody sea-battle of Lepanto a bullet shattered his left hand, made him a hero...